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  From: Adam Towill <atowill@picknowl.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 02:20:34 +1030

Re: Where to get redhat 9 and mandrake 9.1

lol, it costs 4 cents to manufacture a CD disk, and about 12 cents for a DVD
disk.

I still prefer 98se over 2k over XP, but give me linux any day!!!

- Adam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michal Mienik" <Michal.Mienik@stratco.com.au>
To: <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: Where to get redhat 9 and mandrake 9.1


> From: "Adam Towill" <atowill@picknowl.com.au>
> > I do like owning originals of software, at least with linux, its
> affordable,
> > whereas even Windows 98 is still $200 in some stores. Why support a
> company
> > like microsoft, i will never know, when it is easier, simpler and more
> > beneficial to support companies like Red Hat or Mandrake. I will take
your
> > suggestions into account.
>
> Microsoft almost never discount software and certainely wouldn't undermine
> future sales of their latest product by discounting older product lines.
> The cost of manufacturing the CD and box is trivial compared to the final
> sale price.  It's a very effective method of coercing people to avoid
buying
> older products:  $189 for Win98SE OEM, $189 for Win2k OEM, $189 for XP
Home
> OEM.  Which would most people choose?
>
> See ya
>
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