Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2522 mails)

[samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Samy Elashmawy)]

At 11:20 PM 7/11/2000 -0500, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
>Hi Samy
>> Yep it was the win 95 upgrade poly that forced you to buy another copy of
>> 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.
>
>  True. That was frustrating. However it wasn't, IMO, and ingenious ploy
to get
>you to buy another copy. Why do I say this? Simply put, if the OEM's
followed the
>licensing agreement packaged with OSR2, they were not allowed to sell it
separate
>from a new PC. So to me, it looks like MS just released it to keep the
OEMs who
>wanted USB and big hard disks on their PCs happy.

But it still left users out in the cold ! Matter of fact , if it wasent for
that , I would have never looked into linux. Worl works in myterios ways ,
doesnt it.

Not every one knew to go to en oem , and there willingness  to dole out a
disk varried. Some would do it if you baought a new drive or motherboard.
I thonk it was a bad move regardless of there reasoning.

>
>
>> That and the preformance of linux/samba is realy what pushed it over the
>> edge and got me to give linux a try. Started with suse linux and we are
>> currenly moving over to linux and phasing out windows. In otherwords all
>> new boxes get linux , while thetwo current windows(dual boot) support our
>> windows needs for the two windows apps that we havent gotton onto linux. I
>> feel so strongly that I will not be upgrading to win2000/win me and would
>> rather hoold at win98 and move to linux app byt app , and putting it on new
>> machines as they come in.
>
>  I'm trying to do the same. I have a dual-boot PC, and I'm trying to
trade so
>that rather than booting into Windows on a typical day, I will instead
boot to
>Linux. I only need one more app to do this - a e-mail client with most of the
>features of Outlook. Mahogany looks good, I just need to try it a bit.
>
>
>> Yep found the 20.00 upgrade on M$.com , but you wont find it made avialable
>> at compusa otr any retial outlet.
>
>  True, and that is a bad thing.  The aforementioned MS-DOS 6.22 upgrade was
>everywhere. Dunno why they didn't do the same here, but at least it is
better than
>OSR2... I must also give them credit for offering a CD with the urgent
upgrades
>absolutely free (including free S&H) - this is great, because on a
low-bandwidth
>connect you can't be downloading all day (thus why I buy SuSE Linux rather
than
>download it).
>
>  -Tim
>
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