On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 21:33 -0700, Craig White wrote: > 3. $799 a year for support is more than a small business can justify? > As a consultant, I wouldn't want a customer unwilling to pay $800 a > year for support - enough said. > > 4. It supports the ecosystem. There is a cost to developing and > packaging Linux and Red Hat is a public company and does have a > responsibility to its stockholders to earn a profit. It seems > reasonable to support those efforts.
It's a lot to pay, on a just-in-case, basis. And there are plenty of small businesses which are not massively profitable, the business being for the owners to make a living, not for everyone else. It's more palatable if you are actually making use of the paid support, and your fourth point certainly adds to the justifications. Especially if you're only paying for the support, and you didn't pay for the software, all of it or some of it. Actually buy Windows, rather than pirate it, and it's not cheap in an office. You have the software (OS *and* programs, *and* various anti-malware/protective software), the license fees per seat, paying for upgrades... Not to mention the vendor lock-in, virtually forcing you to continually do this, if you want to keep access to your data. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
