Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Not only did I quit buying from RedHat -- I quit USING RedHat, too. I see that Novell's decision to imitate RedHat is causing my worst fears to be realized with the SuSE distro -- the one distro that I want...which I'm willing to pay around $100 US for... is not getting supported properly, and it's sounding like, even for the cost of burning a download, the value-proposition is somewhat iffy.
This is totally sad. I've been a die-hard SuSE fan since the 6.x days, and I've forked over probably $400 over the years for the various incarnations which are now the "opensuse" distribution.
Reviewing the boxes and manuals laying around the room, it looks like I spent about US $600 on "Suse Professional" distributions since the 6.x days.
That is a lot of money. Otoh, imagine you started to use Windows in the Suse 6.x days. How much would you have spent on this? If you review those two figures, it gets clear, that opensuse cannot be the foundation for the Novell Business while windows licenses are (part of) the foundation for the MS business- So as sad as it is, we do not pay (sufficiently) for the software that we use. Therefore, our influence on it's development is very limited, financewise. Kind regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org