Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu April 7 2005 7:09 pm, 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.

You don't know that - NO pricing has been published by MickySoft.

> 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.
>
> I appreciate the significant differences between a Windows release and a
> SuSE release, and I do like SuSE, but I do wonder about this continuous
> upgrade path. If anything I'd be happier with a yearly release on the
> grounds of actually having the OS installed for a reasonable amount of
> time.

Then, do as some do and only buy it once a year......simple enough.

> BTW I'm not a Yank, just using dollars coz it was simple math ;-)

It works.

Fred

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