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I certainly do understand that - but I still think due to brand recognition SuSE should be cheaper than RedHat. It also seems odd that another low-volume sales OS - BeOS - was written from scratch (AFAIK) by commercial developers and costs $10 less than an OS from a company that compiles and supports _other_people's_ software costs $60 - but perhaps I'm not seeing something others are. I guess I'll
yes, numbers for example. As I tried to explain to you in my earlier post, RH DeLuxe is still $10 *more expensive* than SuSE 7.0 professional, and more than two times as expensive if you choose RH 6.2 Professional. I am not sure why you are now coming up with BeOS. That is a different kind of game and if you'd rather work with it you'd have to look at what it costs to maintain and support it. By the way, your numbers are wrong here, too. BeOS costs about $10 more than SuSE 7.0 as well (I am using the Chumbo.com quote and the price on the German SuSE site).
just have to live with it - I certainly won't quit buying SuSE over it. Not the best way to get new Linux users though - "hey, you wanna spend sixty bucks on some small OS, or would you rather spend twenty more on Windows ME?" ;-) This isn't Microsoft tactics, but it is Microsoft prices (especially RH, but not just RH anymore).
Again, I don't understand your complaint. If you don't want the support (which is really what you pay for), download the free version from suse's ftp site. It ain't any cheaper than that. If you want the upgrade version, I bet there will be an announcement on SuSE's US web site sooner or later and if they go with the same price model as the German's you'd be happily surprised. And if one is a newbie trying out a Linux version you can still have that just about as cheap as RH's entry level with the 7.0 personal version. Or, you could pick up one of the single teaser CD-ROM's from linuxmall (if they still burn the SuSE dist on them). I suggest you hold your fire for a while until we see the real numbers on SuSE's web site. Cheers, Alex. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq