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How Many SUSE Subscriptions Can You Get For $240M?

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-got-the-stuff-you-got-the-money? dept.

itwbennett writes "According to an SD Times article, Microsoft is almost through passing out the infamous subscription certificates for SUSE Enterprise Linux that it purchased for $240 million as part of its investment in Novell. According to the article, Microsoft says that 'a total of 475 customers have used an unspecified number of coupons.' Blogger Brian Proffitt calculates that 'if indeed just 475 customers have received these coupons, then Microsoft has essentially subsidized SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) deployments to an average tune of US$505,263.16 per customer.'"

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  1. Microsoft hounds by Yvanhoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft has a special hounds training program. They train them to smell a very subtle scent that exist only when wealth and stupidity is mixed. They call this program "marketing". Open source sellers have moral qualms about it and prefer to solve stupidity which they see as a core problem. Guess who is making money ?

    Now the important question : am I trollish, insighful, funny or CowboyNeal ?

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    1. Re:Microsoft hounds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Calm down, dude! Your spelling and shit is getting all fucked up in ways that make no sense...

    2. Re:Microsoft hounds by ClosedSource · · Score: 2, Funny

      "1. Slashdot readers tend to be very analytical. We like to get all the facts and make a decision based on those facts. Marketing often obscures the facts by which we could make informed decisions."

      If one considered Slashdot readers to be a separate group from Slashdot posters, what you say may be true. Oops, you said "we".

    3. Re:Microsoft hounds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      How do I mod this (-1, Wish to Ignore)?

    4. Re:Microsoft hounds by TimHunter · · Score: 2, Funny

      From all I've seen over the years, /. readers are as likely to ignore inconvenient facts as any other demographic out there.

      Slashdot's chief weapon is ignorance! Ignorance and cynicism. Cynicism and ignorance. Our two weapons are cynicism and ignorance. And arrogance. Our three weapons are cynicism, ignorance, and arrogance. And an overweening sense of entitlement. Our four...no. Amongst our weaponry are such elements as cynicism, ignorance...I'll come in again.

    5. Re:Microsoft hounds by nacturation · · Score: 3, Funny

      Are they lyers and fradusters?

      Hey, did you see that Jim Carrey movie "Lyer, Lyer"? I think it's about some guy who makes soap.

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  2. Re:Free? by Maniacal · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I think we should all write the name SUSE as "$U$E" to make up for the way we've been unfairly referring to "M$" all these years.

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  3. Xcalc? by mystikkman · · Score: 1, Funny

    This struck me as a very interesting figure, because after firing up XCalc, I figured out that if indeed...

    Was that before or after jumping into his Ferrari and flashing his iPhone? Why do people need to display their smug superiority from the unwashed masses when any decent calculator would give the same result?

  4. Now I get it. by Joe+Snipe · · Score: 4, Funny

    When you put it that way, Windows 7 ultimate is a bargain!

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    1. Re:Now I get it. by wiredlogic · · Score: 2, Funny

      It finally proves that Linux has a higher TCO.

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  5. Re:Free? by Sebilrazen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait, £ is 'e,' 'g,' and 'G?' and 'e' is both '£' and '€?' I thought English was confusing.

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  6. Re:Free? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    $on¥