On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:35:25 -0500
"Steven T. Hatton"
product that is hard to support? And if they do populate their office with chameleons, are they going to call the the guys with the hats to support it? I don't think so.
Exactly. This will make a difference. If I was going to install thousands boxes I wouldn't like to be linked to one supplier. It is well known that Software with an OSI approved license develop faster. Sooner or later YaST won't be competitive as it used to be. We should sell services and development, not chains. It is legitimate they try to tie their customers. It is legitimate we will choose something else once there will be technically competitive products with no burdens. SUSE Linux is definitively a good product and SUSE techs definitively know what they are doing (kudos), but this business model is not going to last forever in the Free Software market. my 0.02 Euro.