> License shipments? "clients version of the OS"? > Well, I'm just happy they didn't question the 'Linux company' 401k > plan... Sheesh.
The issue here is pretty simple - Linux companies release their ISO's as soon as they start selling their distribution (not talking about SuSE - which doesn't) and create a very small willingness to go buy a copy, so they don't make almost any money from sales. Red Hat sells their Red Hat Advanced server for $800, but you can get the parts that needed if you're smart enough to know where to look for - freely. Companies like Mandrake "hopes" to make money from Support and their "Mandrake club" - but I can hardly see how they plan to survive in the next few years. Sure - they post that they make money, but the amount is very very small, and not always cover the costs of sponsoring developers, QA, documentation etc. They also don't have a QA - their users are their QA (which really shows when you test the beta's - I tested Mandrake 9 beta 2 and found over 30 RPMS with unresolved symbols (not dependency problems!).. If those companies where a bit smarter - they would have delayed their free ISO's for 60-90 days and only sell packages - like Yellow Dog Linux.. Thanks, Hetz ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
