Re: Suggested press release in reaction to RHAT dropping sparc and alpha
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:44, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:30:54PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> >The amount of money required for Debian will be a lot less. If a company
> > I worked for needed better support for Debian on a non-Intel CPU I'd
> > recommend hiring someone from Eastern Europe. We appear to have quite a
> > few Debian developers from EE countries and many programmers who haven't
> > yet become developers. The cost of the cheapest SPARC server machine (I
> > mean serious servers not those crappy T1's) is equivalent to many years
> > salary for a programmer in EE.
>
> If a company is happy with that option they could pay the same
> cheap programmer to work from the redhat base.
True. However the work of that cheap programmer would never be part of a Red
Hat release.
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