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If RedHat treated Dell in the same way that they treated "us", then I can see why they did it. Here I work for the 5th largest corporation in the world, which was looking at Linux in a big way. We needed some demo licenses to load on servers to check out the Red Hat offering. We purchased 10 licenses (I think), and after 6 months of testing, Red Hat was demanding that we audit our systems and pay for ALL the licenses that we had running. Needless to say that you don't approach it that way - in a big corporate world, Red Hat SHOULD have been DROOLING at the thought of thousands of Red Hat licensed servers running - but it was penny-wise and pound foolish (or just PLAIN foolish), and tried to muscle the golden goose. When SuSE came in, they were VERY accomedating - even sending the author of Y@ST to work with us. All this, without demanding license fees. They played nice, and now they own the contract.
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This is not good for me...  Mike Cox | 10/26/04
ROTFL!!  Confused by religion | 10/26/04
Actually it is good for you  pinback_z | 10/26/04
score another one for mike! (nt)  eLurker | 10/26/04
Hey!  Yen_z | 10/26/04
bravo!  Real World | 10/26/04
get over yourself  cvos | 10/26/04
and another one! (nt)  eLurker | 10/26/04
Excellent, Mikey, although I'll reserve scoring ...  Judas I. | 10/26/04
Sound like and orgy  Physco Dude | 10/26/04
Fantastic!  htotten | 10/26/04
True  SC-man | 10/27/04
Another crack in the MSFT foundation  Chad_z | 10/26/04
Hmmm, they were offering Red Hat.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/26/04
Anti-Marketing  Roger Ramjet | 10/26/04
Said it before  Linux User 147560 | 10/26/04
Somewhat true  Roger Ramjet | 10/27/04
Preaching to the choir  htotten | 10/26/04
Yes, astounding...  Anton Philidor | 10/26/04
That is astounding!  htotten | 10/26/04
And with Win2k support being pushed again  The King's Servant | 10/27/04
Oh what [inexpressible] joy!  Anton Philidor | 10/27/04
Actually, "♪" is unicode for "eigth note"  The King's Servant | 10/27/04
This way to the egress!  Anton Philidor | 10/27/04
My Guess  bidemytime | 10/26/04
Red Hat the OSS contributor vs. the distribution vs. the corporation  Michael Kelly | 10/26/04
Suse is not a good desktop distrobution  Darkintent | 10/28/04
Time for that Phone Call From Almighty Bill  brenthawkinsmd | 10/26/04
Sad  gary.douglas@... | 10/26/04
Nope  Linux User 147560 | 10/26/04
Hmmm. That's curious  John Zern | 10/26/04
Your comment is so stupid...  dnirG_ot_xA_oN | 10/26/04
Dell is in business to make money ...  George Mitchell | 10/26/04
SuSE  Kukulkan | 10/27/04
People who don't use Linux on the desktop ...  George Mitchell | 10/27/04
Fine. Now bring on the linux desktops.  mathandmetal | 10/27/04
If all you want is Linux on the desktop  The King's Servant | 10/27/04
Now that wouldn't jive with scolding Dell  FilledOut | 10/27/04
I was suggesting that  The King's Servant | 10/27/04
Hallelujah!  JLSP | 10/28/04
Mr. Cox caught another!  The King's Servant | 10/28/04

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