Ok,
I mentioned before that some people are waiting anxiously for the ftp to go up if it will ever happen.
Now SuSE seems to totally not be interested in this due to 'god knows what reasons'. I mean it is their choice. I still think though the option of an ftp install is part of their service and they should not make us wait 3 months for the ftp just so they sell 3 more copies of their product.
I am close to deciding not to buy SuSE anymore simply due to the fact that they refuse to put it up on ftp. One of the largest Linux advantages is
SuSE has always delayed putting their distributions up for a couple/few weeks. Why shouldn't they be given the opportunity to make a little money first? I am sorry if the following sounds rude. I do not mean it to as such, but why should they service you if you are not paying for their latest product? Let's be honest, they should support you for the version that you buy, and they do that very well. Why should they go out of their way to accommodate you if you are not a paying customer though? Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Purple Shirt" <purpleshirt@hotmail.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 10:26 PM Subject: [SLE] supply and demand that
you can get your code in multiple ways; NFS, ftp, CD, DVD.
I guess we learned from the Napster ordeal that people have a demand for products and service and if the companies don't provide the products we will provide them ourselves.
I wonder if anybody out there like myself got an unthrottled 100 Mbit cable modem hooked up right into the university's backbone and thinks about putting the CDs up for ftp as SuSE seems to have goo in their ears.
If SuSE continues to delay the release of a product people want, then I would not be surprised if in the future we got unoffical SuSE CD ftp mirrors popping up all over the net. Maybe they already exist and I am not aware of it. Please send me the link then =)
mk
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