----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip N Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 3:24 PM Subject: [rtl] Real-time Linux CDROM Distributions > > Without starting a flame war ... would either FSMLabs or Lineo like to > comment on this? > > The new RTL v3 CD-ROM is priced at $150. The Lineo ISG Embedix Real-Time > CD-ROM was, as I recall, priced at the same level. However, the Lineo > web-page online store now asks for $495! > > I'm not knocking either product but I cringe when I go into CompUSA and > see a Red Hat deluxe collectors edition for > $80. Frankly, under such > circumstances, I'm embarrased to tell people that Linux (real-time or > not) is free (and, yes, I *know* free means freedom not price but still). Yeah it's free, you can download it... and by the way, WindozeNT costs around 400$. Based on NT's price and the quality ratio between NT and Linux, I'd gladly pay Linux 1,000,000$ and smile. :-) > > Can anyone tell me how they arrived at those figures? > I'm sure they can use the money for the work they did. I'd pay it 300$ I wouldn't care, cause if I didn't have the money, I could still download it. But since our company uses RTLinux, I'll make sure we pay our share and encourage wonderful initialives such as RTLinux. -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/rtlinux/
