On 11/10/06, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@gmail.com> wrote:
He's trolling. His sig should get him dropped from the list. Chris, where are you when we need you.......?
Nope. I am not trolling. Just bitching. But you are right. There is no point bitching about SUSE. It leads to nowhere. Buy my estimates, I was probably responsible for getting 10 to 15 boxed copies sold per year for about 6 ot 7 years. These are boxed copied that did not have to be sold and could have been easily bypassed by doing FTP installs, or more recently just downlaodnig the ISO's. I will be first to admit, it's not a huge contribution and nothing to write home about. But it was a darn sight more that a lot of other people who leech SUSE and contribute nothing back. I still think I was onto something with the suggestion that if Microsoft turned around and said all the money they collect from Novell on this they will dump it all back into OSS projects, that would generate a lot of good press and good will amongst the community and people would not be so hostile to them off the bat. -- jjgitties, "*We* need to convince OpenSUSE to fork, or let 'em die. To bad, it is a wonderful Distro. But their parent company is NOT our friend."