On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 20:50, Don wrote:
It would appear that the gratis days are going to be short lived (both power and intel based, etc) and in short order I fear we're going to have to breakout the platinum cards for o/s upgrades...
With regards to OSes like SuSE and Red Hat you might be right. That's why I left SuSE briefly for Fedora, because I didn't want to see Pro disappear in favor of a $100 a year mandatory subscription or you don't get updates. If that ever happens SuSE loses me (again, for good this time) as a customer. However, the thing you have to remember is that there's always a distro out there somewhere that's easy to use and truly free (as in beer). Gentoo comes to mind. Debian, of course. There are others. There will always be a group of people that desire a free alternative. That's the beauty of it. If SuSE starts charging $100 per year to use SuSE... If you get a SuSE tax like there's a Red Hat tax, then you'll see people fork Fedora (or some other distro) and make it their own distro and support it themselves. Maybe even SuSE, stripping out the non-OSS stuff of course.
What happened to the grand idea that everyone was telling me about?
Who told you this grand idea? The world is pretty complex.
I think the hook is getting set and the fish are going to be start to be reeled in....
JMHO....I could be wrong....nah...:)
If you adjust your tinfoil hat just right you won't get reeled in. That would be my advice. Preston