Re: [ossig] Need to know where to get RedHat legal copy in Kl.

[Ikmal Ahmad <evoivgsr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 19:00:07 +0800
Ken Wong <ken@apdip.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 08 April 2004 16:55, Tze-Meng Tan wrote:
> > > ahahaha... you should ask Red Hat then.  This price directly
> > > convert from Red Hat page :)
> >
> > Ah, the one world one price policy....like M$
arghh... don't compare with Microsoft.  They have sell their software for long time and make money from Windows 95,  Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP + their Office software + bla bla bla...
I think if Red Hat have sell till Red Hat Enterprise 8, the price will decrease.  Just wait and see... :) (pray & hope they will read what we discuss here)

> 
> The problem with the one world, one price policy for a linux 
> distribution is that it ignores the cost of labor difference in each 
> country. The main value in buying a licensed linux distribution is the 
> human support but if you are charging US prices in a third world 
> country, you're pricing yourself out of the market. The traditional 
> software model isn't as sensitive to this.
you also must now that the staff that doing support is from US.  How they want to pay their staff in third world country currency when all their staff stay in US.
 
> For RM10k for the advanced server, I would honestly rather get a 
> technical specialist who knows what he's doing and have him install 
> Debian stable or something of the sort. If I have several servers then mmm... for long term you save actually :)

> the math gets even more appealing.
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth Wong
> IOSN Programme Consultant, UNDP-APDIP, Malaysia
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