Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

[Matthew <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I cannot believe someone called 30 days extra support worthless. I know 
people who would be using that. To me all those extra free stuff saves me 
time, therebye saving me money and effort. Thats worth it.

Why get so upset with the manuals? They are a veritable Goldmine of 
information. RH are a lot worse with there distro's, no manuals worth 
mentioning and there professional version is almost $200.

The other big difference is that I see SuSE's name over a lot of 
configuration files out on the 'net, I like giving over my money over to them 
because its ending up on excellent projects that are helping Linux increase 
its market share.

Compared to others out there they do a lot and never get the same 
commendation as RH gets for supporting Open Source projects.

Matt

On Saturday 03 February 2001 06:21 am, juergen.braukmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 February 2001 13:12, you wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:35:30PM -0500, napi5 wrote:
> > > > Oh also cliff,
> > > >
> > > > You're really that upset with SuSE 7.0? Do you think there're getting
> > > > that carried away with the $ thing?
> > >
> > > Well, this discussion has emerged here before.
> > > Yes I do. The personal/professional bullshit is nothing
> > > other than a money spinner. Since 99% of the software
> > > on the CD's is open-sourced, or at least on a free-for-personal
> > > use license, they are not actually giving you anything at all
> > > with the extra money, execpt the cost of a couple of extra
> > > CD's, some written material, and an extra 30 days of worthless
> > > support. Also they know that a lot of people will buy the
> > > "professional" because they are worried they will be missing
> > > something. It stinks.
> > > As I said before SuSE is out Red-Hatting Redhat, with the difference
> > > being you can make copies of Red Hat CD's, you cannot with SuSe's !.
> >
> > Wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    I've made copies of all the install CD's
> > from SuSE. Not a problem. It works every time. I've done this with 6.3,
> > 6.4, and 7.0 most recently. Either you don't know how or you are
> > trolling. I only do copies of the 1st 2 CD's as they are usually the most
> > used here, and I prefer to keep the originals safe.
>
> I do not think he was speaking technically, but legaly. tThere is some
> propetary stuff on the CD's, and for that reason you might not make a
> "legal" copy. As long as you do not care to much about that, it works as
> well as with any CD that comes over for a visit.
>
> Juergen