On Saturday 16 February 2002 10:09, Dwaine wrote:
As linux companies get a taste of money they have started to become like Microsoft, as we know is one of the best at raking in revenue. Just in the past year or year and half Suse and Mandrake had two releases each with no free upgrades. Suse quit providing ISOs for x86; with each turn of the corner linux companies decrease benefits and scam you for more money, this will continue to increase.
You must be joking. Buy the boxed set and quit complaining. For all you get they're practically giving it away.
In the coming years linux marketing will be no different than the other evil empire. It won't be long and people will be angry at linux and be looking for alternatives.
In my opinion the terms of GNU licensing and the nature of the open source community will prevent this from happening.
Myself have found Windows 2000 a much better OS than any linux I've worked with, W2k always runs faster and has a well laid out GUI with polished features; KDE is clunky and slow with a 100x more bugs and hicups than you will ever find in Windows 2000.
Win2k is the best version of Windows I've used. However, it does not come close to the enjoyment I get from my SuSE/KDE system. SuSE has the additional advantage that when I buy the pro set for $70 I not only have an outstanding OS, but 2300 applications that include virtually anything I could possibly need. Contrastingly, once I pay my $200 or whatever Win2k pro costs, I still need to spend hundreds or even thousands to load the system with the applications I need to be productive.
I think Microsoft is excellent at developing a product if they concentrated there efforts on a version of linux they would blow the doors off all other linux companies.
I agree MS has produced some very nice software. MS has also produced some poor software. Whether or not they could "blow the doors off" other Linux companies is not at all certain.
Ever seince SuSE version 7.1, SuSE has decided to become little money hungry >bastards and they no longer have the install ISO's on line, but they are available to paying >customers.
This poster is the one who sounds money hungry to me. In my opinion, if we want SuSE and other companies to be able to continue releasing this great software, the least we can do is buy the box. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************************