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.
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.
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.
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.
A few of many things to ponder.
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
BUT, belive me when I say this, SuSE would be more then happy to take down
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
Linux upgrades are bug fixes for the previous buggy OS, in case you are too
blind
to see that. No free upgrades from M$, what do you call each version of
Explorer.
Security holes? I have an inbox full of linux security updates just in the
last month,
M$ security holes are widely advertised and linux holes are overlooked by
the media.
One independent government study showed linux had more holes than Mac or
Win2k.
In my 20 years as a IT specialist I have tested more different OSs and
computer
hardware configurations than your shallow mind could ever dream of. I enjoy
a healthy
different opinion that is how we learn. Your intolerance to someone else
experience
probably gets you nowhere in life.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Bliss [mailto:bliss@attbi.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 7:43 AM
To: Dwaine Felch
Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Subject: Re: [SLE] installing suse 7.3 - again ;))
Ah, nice to see a Microsoft Shill posting. Actually, there are free
upgrades, you just need
to put forth some effort to acquire them. Unlike Microsoft for which there
are no free
upgrades, the upgades are generally bug fixes of the previous buggy OS, and
there are
tremendous numbers of security holes which the user is paying good money to
install on
their computer.
Glad you like 2000, it crashes rather consistently on my system while SuSE
linux does
not. Faster? what the hell are you doing, running 2000 on a P 4 and
running linux on a
486?
Get a life, most of the people on this list know the truth.
02/16/02 09:09:11 AM, Dwaine Felch
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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