Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Allen <gorebofh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:23:09AM -0800, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
> On 11/9/05, Allen <gorebofh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Not nearly as major as the amount of cash Novell is losing right now.
> > Perhaps more of us should stop bitching about little tiny problems and
> > start actually buying things we support?
> 
> 
> 
> Been doing that since 1997 when you were probably in Jr. HIgh.

Yea I forgot the only people with any respect are those who wear depends to
stop the little potty problem.

 
> And maybe when you go to work you could talk to the people i charge and
> > switch to Novell instead of whatever is used?
> 
> 
> 
> I have 60 SUSE db/MX servers.. what more can *I* do? A lot us here buy SUSE
> .. it's only in the last few months that OpenSUSE has even existed. Prior to
> this there were NO free downloads with the exception of the PITA FTP
> install.
> 
> 
> At the college I go to
> 
> 
> This explains a LOT of your statements. You not even in the real world yet
> and you have the gaul to tell the users of this list WTF to do and make
> innuendos that they're nuts because they get upset about things like this.
> You wet behind the ears nuckle head.. go take another class that tells you
> how things are "suppose" to be. Because you obviously have no bloody clue
> what reality is.

I'll take that class when you can learn how to quote right. Tard.

 
> If Novell loses money, they have to do something. They aren't a charity,
> > they are a business.
> 
> 
> Yep. This is exactly true. And if they lose more customers by what they do
> then the customers they gain.. that's the free market. What this whole
> thread has been about so far is the fact that the customers Novell ALREADY
> have aren't happy with the direction they're going. Becoming more like
> Redhat isn't going to get them Redhat's market and if you look at OpenSUSE
> and all the other things they've been doing.. it's what they've been moving
> toward. But then again you're a college student and aren't in the corp.
> world. So your opinion means close to nothing.

You're right I don't work corporate. My work is all govt related. 


> BUY things from them.
> 
> 
> That's the POINT you imbecile .. we ARE their customers and we are saying
> that WE won't be their customers if they fuck KDE.. don't you friggin get
> it? How many times does it have to be said .. once more I guess.. " If they
> start dropping support for KDE, we are going to take our business elsewhere.
> " It's we who have been paying $55-90 every six months for their releases..
> it's we who have kept this distro alive over the years. Quite a few of us
> have been on these lists and evangelizing for SUSE for years.

Ahhh the number of flames I got when I said fuck once. Maybe it's just me
no one likes and I'M the asshole and not you. Hiding behind that keyboard.

> 
> You just simply do NOT understand and that's fine. But don't start telling
> people they are of low IQ or that they were tinfoil hats because they have
> an opinion. At least some of us have a basis for said opinion and can back
> it up.

I don't believe I said the word tin foil hat jack ass.

 
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> Atheism is a non-prophet organization.