[geeks] Second Life is not a game?

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:20:26PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> Anyone who can't afford a $17,000 Mercury Cell Accelerator cards, or the
> unknown price IBM Cell blades?

I guess so, but I have a stupid question. Since Linux is so similar
on any platform it runs, why? Since you can get a quad processor 
(actually 4 "core") 64 bit X86 computer for so little, why buy
a PS/3? What does it offer?


> > They also supported some PPC development boards and IBM PPC computers,
> > but they are pretty rare. 
> 
> But possibly lucrative. 

I don't know again. I don't see them getting a lot of income from
a company using them. A company would probably buy one boxed set,
and possibly join their "network" for online support and early access
to their releases, but that's what a $100 a year? 

Since it's Linux wouldn't they just use the same software over and over
again on their systems and not buy a new license for each of them?

> What tools did they make?

YUM for example.

Geoff.
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