I disagree with buying Linux. If it means Linux will only get big if we buy it how come it got to where we are in the first place? And I don't see that Linus created this thing to get big. I think it was created to be a solution for people who had no solution for their computing needs. There was no monetary intend in the creation of Linux. I am sick of this commercialism. I don't need and want CDs and books and phone support. I want source and binaries, good download access, and maybe a mailing list and a newsgroup and online documentation and an online database to search for package information. I'd pay for that but SuSE doesn't charge for the items I'd pay for hence it ain't getting money from me. How do you think that they pay for the bandwidth and servers to provide you with all of these services. They could just as easily hide all of this behind a "members only" section of the web site that they give you a

Is it just me or is this rhetoric that we don't need on the English 'SUPPORT' mailing list? And again anyone have any inside scoop on setting up and installing SCSI raid(s) -----Original Message----- From: Rick Barnes [mailto:rag3fan@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 4:55 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] If you have full Boxed version of Suse 7.1 Professional... At 02:57 PM 4/17/01 +0000, Purple Shirt wrote: password after sending in your registration info.

I realize SuSE is doing great work and their distro works. It's just very difficult for a person to decide what the market forces should be if sides argue what is best for one; commercial software, proprietory software, free software, GNU software, share software, billed free software, GPL software, open software, closed software, free to private customers software. I mean its insane for the customer to decide what has value and what that value is. For me personally I am confused about software these days and it makes me not want to buy anything. I am waiting to see a clear cut picture arise of what the economies of scale are, who is gonna make it and who is not, and what the right product/price combi is for me.

They also help develop and/support other open source software such as KDE, xfree86, etc. These are the things that you are buying when you purchase the box. Not to mention the commercial software that comes with it. Rick Barnes ragefan@whoever.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com