On Sunday 10 April 2005 07:36, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 13:43, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:09, Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 20:46, John Andersen wrote:
Its SO cheap compared to windows (any flavor).
I'm going to be controversial here and disagree with you. Time between Windows XP and Longhorn is going to be roughly 5 years at least. Price of an upgrade will be somewhere in the range of $125 dollars. In that time SuSE will have released ten releases (6 month release cycle). At a cost of $60 for each upgrade you're looking at $600.
Guess what! It gets worse than that. The company I worked for in the UK purchased M$ licences for each development programmer, which meant that we were each entitled to download Windows XP (as well as other software). Then our company went to Dell and ordered a stack of new naked PCs - no O.S. installed. But, and here's the catch, Dell are in a contract with M$ that no machine will leave their premises without XP. Outcome: although we had paid for XP we had to pay for it again on each new PC. Beat that for money grubbing! Happy days now that I'm off the bottle. Colin
I skip short releases. I usually buy only one a year. I bought 8.2 Pro and then 9.1 OEM. I am debating 9.2 with intact multimedia and 9.3 just out.
I'm thinking about 9.3, depending on what I hear on the list. One thing I've got to say about the article that was replied to. You can take that $60 and divide it by the number of boxes you install it on, you can't do that with M$, and at a certain point you're going to have to buy a version for new windows users ($300+ U.S.?) if your current version (like 98se) isn't listed as a upgrade from candidate.