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[Ask HN] When to pay for an OS?

1 points by jason_slack 17y ago

All, I am slowing growing my startup. I have about 6 CentOS 5.4 servers. Recently I have been wondering about when should I pay for an OS? CentOS has worked great for me and it does everything I ask of it. But what about those companies selling distros? What do I really gain? just paid support? Suse Enterprise 11 is $899. CentOS is free. (although I donate every year) I thought about running Novells Groupwise Server which they prefer that you run SLES for that. I sort of feel lost in a sea of where do I put my hard earned revenue?

jodrellblank 17y ago
You use CentOS, you donate to CentOS; I don't see the problem. You have a slow growing startup, you can't be running out of places to spend money already? YAGNI, and all that.