I too will prolly do the same and switch to Debian. I switched to Suse when Redhat started moving their prices up. I have been running linux for 6 years now and SuSE is by far the best I have used. I bought 7.0 Professional, but I don't think I will buy 7.1. It starts to hurt when you are spending $60.00+ 2-3 times a year because you love Linux. I didn't mind to support the Linux community at $30.00. But it's getting too close to the $100.00 range. BTW, I don't use the books, just a CD set would be nice, like I used to buy from infomagic... On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 07:24:07AM +0000, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
all the more reason to keep the BS factor and smoke and mirrors stuff to a minimum. The reason I continue to buy suse is the rock solid product , the new two tone pricing structure does not make me happy. I have bought every version since 5.3 most of them for $29.99 and am not happy with being hit for M$ type pricing of 7.0 / 7.1
That and there new "strategy has turned off a LOT of LOYAL suse useres who put them there.I seems that they want to go closer to the enterprise big corperate customer and not there mainstay linux users of the past. If that does contimnue , I will look into another distro , most likely Debian.
I am trully sorry for the layoffs , but to be frank , it comes as no surprise.
At 04:49 PM 2/7/2001 -0500, joe wrote:
My guess is the sudden change to two different releases and raise in
SuSE was to offset lower than expected sales. A lot of other linux companies will suffer the same fate. Times have changed, the ecomomic climate for
prices by linux in
America is not the same as it was a year ago.
joe
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