On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:37:45 -0500 Ken Schneider <suse-list-e@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
Now now Mike, lets not call these people morons, they are just to lazy to read the info on the site that says these tools are not included.
I do agree that personal version was a mistake which is probably why it has been dropped in 9.2.
Actually, Ken, the mistake was to assume that those sufficiently aware of the computing world to choose Linux (and on this list especially, those choosing our favourite distro) would also be intelligent enough and sufficiently aware to tell the difference. Even a moron should be able to understand that a product marked "Personal" and priced at 50 units may not be identical to that product named "Professional" and priced at 100 units! Those that can't are obviously several bits short of a byte. Clearly, this was a mistaken assumption, and removing the cause of whinging does two things: it simplifies marketing, and removes those who whinge that they've bought the cheap version and it doesn't have the expensive (used comparatively- check M$ prices) version's bells and whistles. Good for SuSE. My 9.2 PROFESSIONAL is on order! Terence