Fine - but to be honest: if that's your opinion you have not understood a word.
Do you remember BeOS? A fine OS, yes, definetely. Well, one day they shut it down, sold everything to Palm. Gone.
Folks at haiku.org are _painfully_ working for several years now to restore the state of BeOS 5 (that was the state the OS was several years ago).
A proprietary OS. But hey, who cares.
Licensing costs are not really that important, believe me. What counts is the support for the software. Even SUN has nowadays understood that. So yeah, Fedora is free and open source. Red Hat is open source _but_ it is very expensive because you pay for the support. As a company you want professional support - everything else is stupid in my opinion.
Sorry, this is crap. Most of the people I know changed to Linux, *BSD, *Solaris _because_ these systems are by definition open source. It means the source code will remain open source and everyone can change it if he wishes. And yes, most Linux users have chosen Linux _because_ it is open source (the source is open, that's what it says and means), not because it is "free".
You haven't seen much in your life, yet, buddy. And your view is somewhat distorted ---
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Fine - but to be honest: if that's your opinion you have not understood a word. Do you remember BeOS? A fine OS, yes, definetely. Well, one day they shut it down, sold everything to Palm. Gone. Folks at haiku.org are _painfully_ working for several years now to restore the state of BeOS 5 (that was the state the OS was several years ago). A proprietary OS. But hey, who cares. Licensing costs are not really that important, believe me. What counts is the support for the software. Even SUN has nowadays understood that. So yeah, Fedora is free and open source. Red Hat is open source _but_ it is very expensive because you pay for the support. As a company you want professional support - everything else is stupid in my opinion.
Yes, e.g. the folks at Gnu-Darwin: http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
Sorry, this is crap. Most of the people I know changed to Linux, *BSD, *Solaris _because_ these systems are by definition open source. It means the source code will remain open source and everyone can change it if he wishes. And yes, most Linux users have chosen Linux _because_ it is open source (the source is open, that's what it says and means), not because it is "free". You haven't seen much in your life, yet, buddy. And your view is somewhat distorted ---