Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

["Koos Pol" <koos_pol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 10:37:48 -0000, dids said:

| Whoever said that the cost of SUSE is too high is having a laugh.
|  
|  I may not be able to afford every version of Suse though I have most, and
|  last time I bought Personal. But, that doesn't mean its too expensive.
|  
|  I will be buying Pro 7.1 and probably skip a few after that.
|  
|  
|  Compare SuSE to what Photoshop, w2k, ms-office cost ....
|  
|  
|  Now the pricing on the Kylix from Borland, that is a joke. Free edition GPL
|  <- great, but then massive prices of $999 for a desktop version for non-gpl
|  projects. Now that is expensive.
|  
|  
|  dids


Very much agreed. I am running a well tuned 6.4 box and only now I am
considering getting 7.1
There really is no need to chase after every release as if it were a
basis need from the Pavlov list. In this respect, SuSE perhaps is doing
too *good* of a job :-)

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