[wellylug] Microsoft At WellyLUG last night.

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jedolinux.com
Wed Jul 13 20:16:25 NZST 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 19:59, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> > 
> > And Redhat DOES NOT run a monopoly, DOES NOT use closed standards, DOES
> > NOT promote lies and DOES NOT try and lock people in.
> > 
> It DOES promote lies! One lie is that its $600 Linux is 
> better than a freely downloaded Linux.

From a corporate viewpoint $600 linux IS BETTER, because it gives them
legal protection. This is true for their target market.



> Another is that its 
> $600 charge is for support. 

$600 really is for the support - Legal support & product support. You
might not think this is a good price, but again the target market does.



> And it does try to lock people in.

please give me an example - I'm not aware of any, but you may be able to
tell me of one.


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