![](https://seccdn.libravatar.org/avatar/fcd4012789da8eeaa5a42187921e5989.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
Hi Kevin,
I have to say that I too am finding this discussion a bit tiresome. I have in fact spent more on Linux than I ever did on Windows, but the value of what I have got from open-source is incomparably greater.
I couldn't agree more.
Those who want to support SuSE, and can afford to, should buy boxed sets regularly. Those who want to support SuSE, but have less ready cash, should try to buy a boxed set occasionally. I think we are all agreed on that.
I might not agree on the former point, but I agree on the latter. Everyone should buy boxed sets, at least occasionally. I think it's a little bit of overkill for anyone to buy three or four boxed sets a year though (at least for a SOHO install, on enterprise installs that makes sense)... then again if you feel like spending $280 a year on SuSE boxes, more power to you. ;-)
There is a cost attached to a good distro like SuSE, and someone has to pay it. No doubt I could do my own distro - in about 3 years time, if I work hard at it, I might have as good a one as SuSE. But I won't be able to do any work in the meantime. I would far rather have the guys at SuSE do their stuff (even if they get it wrong sometimes, which they do), and toss them the odd ?40 now and again. Buying a round in a pub nowadays will cost you a quarter of that, and who gives a second thought to that?
I do, well I don't drink, so that's a moot point. <g>
So could we please stop talking about 7.3? Buy it, or wait for the FTP download, or use 7.2.
Hey, 7.3 is the best thing to talk about 7.2 is getting old. :-p Seriously, I might note in all of my discussions on ISO's, previous or current, I still end up buying the box (I probably would often times anyway, 'cuz I really like the DVD). At least for me, I just ask two questions no one can seem to answer: 1.) How is it that SuSE is the only distro that can't afford to offer ISO's? 2.) By removing ISO's, did they gain customers, or simply lose the people that didn't buy the boxes anyway (and stop the people that *did* buy the boxes from getting a copy before they could buy the box). I would lean towards that latter scenario, in which case SuSE gains nothing and loses some things by removing ISO's. -Tim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks tbutler@uninetsolutions.com ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm Free/Open Source Web Tools: http://www.uninetsolutions.com Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com ============== "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ==============