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.
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.