>No, you don't really get to complain about it when you are asking them for large sums of money. Attitudes like this are a big part of why I am far happier to

>No, you don't really get to complain about it when you are asking them for large sums of money. Attitudes like this are a big part of why I am far happier to run a for-profit business at near-breakeven than I am running a not-for-profit or cooperative enterprise. $20K is... rather less than what my RHEL bill would be if I was using RHEL and not CentOS. I mean, I'm a pretty small shop, and $20K is a lot of money for me (thus I'm using CentOS and not RHEL.) - but by the standards of a whole operating system? twenty grand is small potatoes. Hell, /my/ power bill is rather more than $20K a year.