Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3166 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The 03.03.13 at 13:26, Anders Johansson wrote:

> I think you're sort of missing the point here. Noone is forcing you to
> buy it.  You can get all the sources (yes, *all* the sources) completely
> gratis either from the internet by downloading yourself,

You may... but, for example, not me, I pay by the minute of inet
conection. Others pay per megabyte, I heard.  Not gratis, certainly.
Worse, some people do not even have any internet nearby.

> Now you tell me, why should I have to suffer with old technology simply
> because you and a handful of others won't get a dvd drive?

Why should you suffer? Why not have a choice? I use the dvd, but I like to
have the cds as well. And, getting a dvd reader can be too expensive or
impossible for some people.

A cd only version could be sold by Suse as well.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson