On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 07:09, Dwaine Felch wrote:
As linux companies get a taste of money they have started to become like Microsoft, as we know is one of the best at raking in revenue. Just in the past year or year and half Suse and Mandrake had two releases each with no free upgrades. Suse quit providing ISOs for x86; with each turn of the corner linux companies decrease benefits and scam you for more money, this will continue to increase.
SuSE had its reasons for not providing ISO's...But do other non-linux companies provide iso's of their software? No. Also as mentioned by a Slashdot poster a site that purely linked to ISO's closed due to lack of interest. Then, people fail to mention the Live-Eval version that SuSE make, this takes the place of an ISO IMHO in that it gives. As for the greed, well if they get to greedy someone else can compete with relative ease. But capitalism relies on greed, he who makes money actually grows and is able to put that back into R&D.
In the coming years linux marketing will be no different than the other evil empire. It won't be long and people will be angry at linux and be looking for alternatives.
Thats bs, why? Open Source, if you fail to "compete" someone will make a Linux distribution that will target that angry audience. "Linux" advertising, all the advertising has been pretty much through IBM, whether or not we'll see individual distributions doing heavy MS style advertising remains to be seen, but then you're not purely talking about Linux. Get the difference? You're looking at Linux through Microsoft glasses, something MS keep doing.
Myself have found Windows 2000 a much better OS than any linux I've worked with, W2k always runs faster and has a well laid out GUI with polished features; KDE is clunky and slow with a 100x more bugs and hicups than you will ever find in Windows 2000.
Then why are you here trolling? I have found the opposite to you, dound w2k to be clunky and badly laid out, whilst KDE2x has been a dream for me. These types of statements are useless, like Gnome VS KDE. Quite a few prefer Gnome over KDE, BlackBox over everything else etc. Which just goes to show that the Windows default "cannot really be changed much" approach is not the best. Ever try OSX? Its way better too than Windows interface, easy to navigate and learn, but for me it lacks reconfigurability. As for 100X more bugs, how can you tell? Did you see the code in W2k and KDE and compared?
I think Microsoft is excellent at developing a product if they concentrated there efforts on a version of linux they would blow the doors off all other linux companies.
Perhaps they have just spent the last three years developing, but without them actually releasing anything I don't know (and I doubt that they have the technical aptitude to do so, totally different environment for one, and having so much flexibility will probably throw them for a loop).
A few of many things to ponder.
Not really, most are opinion based without facts, which makes me wonder whether you're just out trolling? Matt
Ever seince SuSE version 7.1, SuSE has decided to become little money hungry >bastards and they no longer have the install ISO's on line, but they are available to paying >customers. BUT, belive me when I say this, SuSE would be more then happy to take down their >FTP server and all other mirrors. But they cant cuz Linus would have nothing to do with it. and the GPL will not allow it. Their says would be numbered if they pulled a stunt like that. So you can still get SuSE for free off the FTP server, BUT not in an install ISO form. You have have to download it package by package. And this is where they get really shitty about some things.
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