Samy Elashmawy wrote:
How meny boxes at $79.99 do you expect a typical non comercial user to buy a year at M$ type pricing. At $29.99 I have no problem buming up at each dot version , but at $79.00 I will realy look closely at the product. If I hade a big fat internet pipe I would just download it , but with dial up that is not an option.
Samy, The word is "many" not "meny" and to answer your question. I buy each time SuSE upgrades. = AND = The Borders near me no longer carries SuSE Linux so I order by phone from SuSE INC ! I happen to like the fact that SuSE has two different types of packages, one for Personal Use (like what I use it for) and one for professional use. That's just good business sense. The price is still much better that Winbloze. Winbloze wants almost $100.00 for 1 CD and one skinny manual to help you install the friggin CD. SuSE is $29 for 3 CD's, two manuals telephone tech support plus multiple mailing lists full of support. I think you've been smoking something quite strong Samy ! :) Layoffs suck, but at least SuSE is still with us and continuing to offer quality OS's to those of us who despise Winbloze. As long as SuSe survives there's hope. Let's do our part and order the real distro from SuSE and help keep them alive, rather than d/l the damn thing or buy it from Joe Bloe for $3. Support SuSE rather than gripe. (I do , and I'm sure as hell not rich, I work as bagger and a cashier for a local supermarket chain !! If I can do this you guys can too ! ) = Returning to Lurk Mode = - Dave - Linux is the perfect free operating system. No gates, no windows, no problems !
Shucks if you put the boxes in comp usa , best but , and aall the other consumer retiual outlets , you are not going to get the big coperate guys buying them there. You instead end up having your typical "joe blow" aho knows little about linux getting phreaked out by sticker shock.
This is not MS it is LINUX. Freely aviualable and GPL. The chain stores want to move product and mark it up based on traffic , and with 4 reviosons / dot versions a year , the wont keep the stock on the shelf , as soon as the new one is released theey will mark down the older one.
$79.99 is to expensive , shucks , you can go down to the book store and buy a good quality linux book with the distro on cd for half the $79.99 price of the boxed set. Spliting it into two diffrent version was not to my likeing. Most peaple will feel they are missing something in the standard vversion , and feel they are paying to mucg for the deluxe version , just to make sure they got every thing.
I bought my first version 5.3 for $69.99 retial at borders , and a real short time it was obsolete as the newer veersi0on came out. Linux is now getting just as expensive as M$ from looking at the retial shelevs.