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To: DiViT who wrote (63133)11/19/2001 12:50:35 PM
From: The Duke of URLĀ©  Respond to of 74651
 
Office for Mac: Strange bedfellows' baby
By Joe Wilcox
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
November 19, 2001, 9:30 a.m. PT
Office v. X for the Mac slipped into stores Monday, culminating a nearly five-year development effort by Microsoft.

The delivery of Office v. X has not been easy, requiring once bitter rivals Microsoft and Apple Computer to cooperate on major changes to Mac OS X, a product that arguably competes with Windows XP. The relationship between the companies in fact has changed substantially...

news.cnet.com



To: DiViT who wrote (63133)11/19/2001 3:41:16 PM
From: dybdahl  Respond to of 74651
 
Red Hat 7.2 Professional and Red Hat Linux 7.2 Workstation is $4 if you buy it at

linuxpusher.dk

When talking about free software, you should normally understand it in the sense of "freespeech", not "no costs".

Lars.



To: DiViT who wrote (63133)11/19/2001 5:58:19 PM
From: Dave  Respond to of 74651
 
Linux is essentially free. One copy may be $60 or $179, but the point is that ten thousand copies are $60 or $179 too. So after that first purchase, the next 9,999 copies are free. If you are a big corporation, that's darn free. Add to that the fact that Linux is cheaper to maintain and administer, and it's a big cost savings.

Dave