On Wednesday 03 October 2001 06.10, Timothy R.Butler wrote:
Okay I'll admit it, I'm excited about SuSE 7.3. I'm running SuSE 7.1, and I can't wait to get my shiny new copy. BUT, SuSE is really getting crazy this time around.
I noticed that the upgrade version of 7.3 is still $49.95, but the description says "SuSE Linux 7.3 Update Edition, is a full version of 7.3 Professional Edition, but without the manuals." Am I reading this right? No manuals. Okay, I thought that the Update Edition came with some manuals, and I still thought it was expensive. Now lets do the math: Ten cents per CD times 7 cds equals seventy cents. Lets say the DVD costs a whopping five dollars. Okay. Now we have $5.70. Hmm... Okay, lets say the box costs another $5. That's $10.70. Now, that means in an upgrade version material costs likely add up to less than 1/4 of the price (only about a 1/5 actually!). What exactly is SuSE doing with the other $40?
SuSE is charging too much for 7.3 Upgrade!!!!
<ahhhhh> I feel better now, I'm good for at least a few months...
-Tim
paying wages for the people working full-time to put it together? I think it's worth it. I've never been a great fan of Richard Stallman's philosophy, but even he said it was OK to charge for work done, and suse does a lot IMHO. SuSE employs a lot of people working on the various projects (KDE, the kernel, etc) and even though they're linux geeks, I'm sure at least some of them have lives, and I'm almost certain most of them eat. And if companies like SuSE didn't pay them to work full-time on OS software, the development of those projects wouldn't be at the fast pace it is. So let's do the math: $50 a box and you have a box. $11 a box and you have a bankrupcy. Of course you still have a box, only now it says Microsoft Anders