Servus! Let me add my voice to the chorus. SuSE, know thyself! YaST2 is only one symptom of the new marketing-driven SuSE strategy. I think some people at the top of SuSE have been swayed by US market Bolshevism, even as the economic weakness of that simplistic, totalizing model is now being exposed (and you ain't seen NOTHIN' yet), what to say of its spiritual and moral bankruptcy. Stay with your roots, SuSE, which made you good. At the beginning of my linux experience, when I knew nothing about linux, I had just tried RedHat before switching to SuSE. It is true that at that time I complained to feedback@suse.de that there was no linuxconf-type tool in SuSE. I am not even sure that I knew about YaST. In any case, SuSE, I utterly retract what I said, and by the way you shouldn't listen to the opinions of complete newbies, like parents shouldn't, as a rule, take advice from kids when the kids have no basis on which to have an opinion (another regrettable fashion). Personally, I am going to wait for 7.1. We'll see how that goes. If it is even more vitiated by a marketing ethos, less quality-driven, less honest, then I will upgrade to Debian. Better to vote with our feet now, when there is a chance to change things. Too many companies take their established customer base for granted when trying to grab new customers. But it's really quite easy to switch to a new distribution. Corvin -- Corvin Russell <corvinr@sympatico.ca>
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:24:37AM -0500, Corvin Russell wrote:
Servus!
Let me add my voice to the chorus. SuSE, know thyself! YaST2 is only one symptom of the new marketing-driven SuSE strategy. I think some people at the top of SuSE have been swayed by US market Bolshevism, even as the economic weakness of that simplistic, totalizing model is now being exposed (and you ain't seen NOTHIN' yet), what to say of its spiritual and moral bankruptcy. Stay with your roots, SuSE, which made you good.
At the beginning of my linux experience, when I knew nothing about linux, I had just tried RedHat before switching to SuSE. It is true that at that time I complained to feedback@suse.de that there was no linuxconf-type tool in SuSE. I am not even sure that I knew about YaST. In any case, SuSE, I utterly retract what I said, and by the way you shouldn't listen to the opinions of complete newbies, like parents shouldn't, as a rule, take advice from kids when the kids have no basis on which to have an opinion (another regrettable fashion).
Personally, I am going to wait for 7.1. We'll see how that goes. If it is even more vitiated by a marketing ethos, less quality-driven, less honest, then I will upgrade to Debian. I agree with this sentiment, and is the course of action I am conetemplating myself. Better to vote with our feet now, when there is a chance to change things. Too many companies take their established customer base for granted when trying to grab new customers. But it's really quite easy to switch to a new distribution.
Corvin
-- Corvin Russell <corvinr@sympatico.ca>
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