"Vicente A.S. Werner" wrote:

There's a great economic point in using free software, you certainly don't get any guarantees but what can give you more guarantee that a great pool of developers and web sites using linux?.

I am amazed at how Bill Gates discounts Linux. His argument is that having so many fingers in the pie menas Linux will never be stable. *This* is great marketing. Windows users never experience incorrect this statement is, and therefor fall hook-line-and-sinker for it. It *sounds* realistic. Tell a bunch of people who are used to paying for a company to create and build software that Linux is created by a chaotic slew of unrelated people who never even talk to each other and live in different countries all over the world, and this seems like logic to unknowing ears. Alas, this is exactly what makes Linux so strong. It is a huge network of unrelated individuals working on different aspects of the whole. And that whole is assembled by companies like SLS (once), RedHat, SuSE and whoever else. It is somewhat equivalent to Microsoft buying out companies instead investing in training new divisions of people for the next internet fad. To a Linuxy or Free-BSDer, this makes total sense. To a Microsoft enthusiast, this is complete malarky. Laters, Karsten ______________________________________________________ Get your free web-based email at <A HREF="http://www.xoom.com"><A HREF="http://www.xoom.com</A">http://www.xoom.com</A</A>> SPECIAL OFFER: 250 Web Site Templates, Only $29.95! - <A HREF="http://orders.xoom.com/email"><A HREF="http://orders.xoom.com/email</A">http://orders.xoom.com/email</A</A>> -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>