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From: Jim Henderson
Date: 9 Oct 2011 19:14:30
Message: <4e922ad6$1@news.povray.org>

On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:34:50 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> On 10/9/2011 14:04, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> How is it that it would cost more to host a repository for software for
>> one platform than the other?
> 
> Insurance. Management. Stuff like that. Basically, overhead and risk
> abatement.

So, the same kinds of things that you have to be careful of with Linux 
repositories as well.

That's why, for example, the official openSUSE repos don't have any 
proprietary codecs or device drivers in them.  Because of liability, 
insurance, and management.

So again, why would it be any more expensive for Microsoft than for an 
open source project?

Jim

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