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Posted Thursday 20th August 2009 09:35 GMT
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re. Pay as you go with Microsoft

Yes, but Microsoft isn't as dependent on support fees as Red Hat and Novell; Microsoft charges a license fee for the O/S so it can fund R&D from this.

This is a real problem for Linux; without an underlying economic model for the distros, they will cease to exist and linux will be going backwards.

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