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Story: Red Hat's pricing attacked by Dell

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And is Dell still charging a 'Windows Tax' on Linux PCs? I remember investigating a Dell Linux workstation last year, and the machine running RedHat 9 would have cost over 200 GBP more than the identical hardware running XP.

I asked the Dell sales rep about this, and was told that the extra 200+ quid was the 'cost' of RedHat 9, because Dell had some sort of deal with MS that meant that XP was essentially 'free'.

I did point out to him the ludicrous nature of his statement, at which point he admitted that he didn't really understand how Dell and MS's agreement worked....

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