Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3221 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> > Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> >
> > > Not only did I quit buying from RedHat -- I quit USING RedHat,
> > > too.  I see that Novell's decision to imitate RedHat is
> > > causing my worst fears to be realized with the SuSE distro --
> > > the one distro that I want...which I'm willing to pay around
> > > $100 US for... is not getting supported properly, and it's
> > > sounding like, even for the cost of burning a download,
> > > the value-proposition is somewhat iffy.
> > >
> > > This is totally sad.  I've been a die-hard SuSE fan since
> > > the 6.x days, and I've forked over probably $400 over the
> > > years for the various incarnations which are now the "opensuse"
> > > distribution.
> > Reviewing the boxes and manuals laying around the room,
> > it looks like I spent about US $600 on "Suse Professional"
> > distributions since the 6.x days.
>
> That is a lot of money.

Not really


> Otoh, imagine you started to use Windows in the Suse 6.x days. How much
> would you have spent on this?

For the same amount of software?  $500,000 easily.

Database engines that don't fall over just because 50 people
are accessing the database are quite expensive in MS land.


> If you review those two figures, it gets clear, that opensuse cannot be
> the foundation for the Novell Business while windows licenses are (part
> of) the foundation for the MS business-

Look at the figures above.


> So as sad as it is, we do not pay (sufficiently) for the software that
> we use. Therefore, our influence on it's development is very limited,
> financewise.

I'm more than happy to pay $$$ to SuSE to put out a good distro.

> Kind regards
> Eberhard



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