Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
Cheap updates are available.
Free, yes (if you have a reasonably fast net connection). Cheap, no (ironically).
I updated Samba last night via FTP. SuSE continues to make available updates for several years. For me, the biggest cost of new versions is the days to reconfigure everything. The money is a smaller part.
Let's say you had gotten version 6.4. How would you update via FTP to 7.1 in an orderly way? Or for that matter how would you update from 6.0 to 6.4?
I think there was a upgrade version for 7.0. The retailers wouldn't carry it, so you had to order direct and pay full list price, which was just about street price for the full version. Guess what happened.
That's exactly my point about the need for cheap upgrades. The problem in this case is SuSE's full list price, which really ought to be set at a "tiny profit" level. Paul