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OSS Doesn't Pay the Bills
? ? a salesman makes commission from his sales, and 14,000 units probably gave him quite a bit of change in his pocket.?

At a rate of 1 cent per Linux PC, Aigner apparently made about $140 from the sale ? just enough money to buy a bag of tokens at his local video game store. Maybe his wife told him she was not amused, and that he needed to ditch the adolescent minded OSS movement and get a real paying job.
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MS Linux soon to follow (NT)  bidemytime | 04/20/04
Keep Biding your time  PlatformAgnostic | 04/21/04
The true story behind the scenes  Enterprise Analyst | 04/20/04
Guess you forgot D A E M O N  Monkey_MCSE | 04/20/04
OSS Doesn't Pay the Bills  P. Douglas | 04/20/04
I doubt he made a $.01 per license  Monkey_MCSE | 04/20/04
You Doubt What I Say!!!!!!!!  P. Douglas | 04/20/04
I fully agree with ya there  Monkey_MCSE | 04/20/04
BIG difference in Commission and SALARY!  Enterprise Analyst | 04/20/04
As ignorant as the rest of you,  IT_User | 04/20/04
Once again you prove you don't read beyond the headlines  Michael Kelly | 04/20/04
AT the time it was owned by a GERMAN company!  Enterprise Analyst | 04/20/04
Apparently not close enough  Monkey_MCSE | 04/20/04
That would be...  Fred Fredrickson | 04/20/04
Microsoft "Best Company to Work For"????  John Le'Brecage | 04/20/04
um  AttIvAn | 04/21/04
Proves Linux is dead...  Mike Cox | 04/20/04
8.4 . . . .  Plain Logic | 04/20/04
7.6...  nucrash | 04/21/04
It only proves some salesman will sell their own mothers  Xunil_Sierutuf | 04/20/04
salesman  Arm A. Geddon | 04/20/04
(NT) Proves everybody has their price.  Plain Logic | 04/20/04
Proves you can't make money with Linux  Enterprise Analyst | 04/20/04
Guess Redhat falsified their quarterly earnings?  Monkey_MCSE | 04/20/04
Redhat is worried about the lawsuit  Enterprise Analyst | 04/20/04
Redhat is worried abut the lawsuit  IT_User | 04/20/04
There is a difference between ?by money? and ?by an idea?.  Vily Clay | 04/20/04
Microsoft hires key rival from SuSE Linux  Loverock Davidson | 04/20/04
Oh, MS has done dumber things...  dicktaurus@... | 04/20/04
What about Microsoft BOB?  Patrick Jones | 04/21/04
MS sales staff needs training  Spam-ZD | 04/20/04
Karl Aigner: "Believe me now and hear me later ..."  Eggs Ackley_z | 04/21/04
immaturity?  dwest_z | 04/21/04

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