How soon we forget! -- Kirk Moore EPM - Release Management environments - STL's 425-965-6543 (desk) 425-797-9092 (pager) Black holes are created when God divides by zero!
---------- From: Jack Barnett[SMTP:jbarnett@axil.netmate.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 12:43 PM To: EXT-Moore, Kirk W; tbutler@uninetsolutions.com; SuSE Mailing List; 'Samy Elashmawy' Subject: Re: [SLE] Fundamental differences
Someone wrote:
Yep it was the win 95 upgrade poly that forced you to buy another copy
windows if you wanted any of the enhancements. I ended up waiting till win98 came out as by then I realy needed the fat32 support. That cost me 89.00 just cause I needed FAT32 suport. So yes I am still pissed off about it.
Kirk Writes in response..... I had to get off the floor, I was laughing so hard. You folks hate M$ so much that you cannot go look on thier web sites and download a free piece of software that did the convert to fat32. It was
mad over something like that really amazes me. The upgrade policies for Microsoft may be stricter than most here would like, I do not mind paying 89.00 for software that I need. I paid 499.95 for a single user license of Microport... (anyone remember them). I have paid Sun's outrageous prices for software also... I had a Sun 3/280 with Eagle drives (at my house ;)), and
of posted on the Microsoft Site for free download. I am sorry, but getting paid Sun 900+ dollars for the tapes. So 89.00 seems cheap to me..... Remember SCO Unix, or XENIX. heheh Lets talk money and the foolish prices that we have paid... :)
It just tickles me.... It does....
I seen the funniest ad (from Microsoft) in I think either news week or people magazine that stated "Windows 2000 is thridteen times more realible then Windows 98!" IMHO that was funny as hell coming from Microsofts marketing engine.
Unix is high price, but because of the free ones out there (Linux, *BSD, Minix ) a lot of commerical vendors are giving or selling their OS for free to dirty cheap. Sun, SCO, iBSD (they have probably changed do to the merger with FreeBSD (err Walcreek)) can (or atleast could) allow there OS's to be picked up for about $10-$40 a pop for not for profit, non-commerical educational usage only. Sure doesn't do anything if you have a bussiness, but if you are just a unix hobbiest, it is an amazing deal.
For 900+ bucks, you could buy a stacked out SS20 for that and run say Sparc Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris 7 sparc or Solaris 8 educational developers editions assuming that the seller didn't include a license copy of Solaris (got Solaris 2.6 license legally with SS2). Your just plain crazy :)
-- Kirk Moore EPM - Release Management environments - STL's 425-965-6543 (desk) 425-797-9092 (pager)
Black holes are created when God divides by zero!
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