Sorry, should not have replied to your email. I may have confused the
issue.
But I do agree with you, it doesnt make much sense.
Chris Kulish
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Sinclair [mailto:sinclair@zma.attmil.ne.jp]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:32 PM
To: NOC; suse-linux-e@suse.com
Subject: Re: [SLE] Free Beer vs. Free Speech [was] 7.1 ISO
NOC, you are losing me. The orginal message, quoted below, is from Ben,
not you. I was referring the statement, "This doesn't make sense. How can
someone be cheap if they are willing to
spend $129.00 instead of $30? $129 is 4 times more than $30," to Ben, not
you.
I'm just trying to understand where his 'free beer' thinking is coming from
and the statement, " 'I can't get it for free, so I will pay M$ $129.00 for
Windows because I am too cheap to pay $30 for the personal edition of SuSE,'
" confuses me.
So, I ask again, how can BEN's statement make sense. How can someone be
cheap when they are buying a more expensive product?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Rosenberg"
Mads,
The answer to the reason the live eval won't work is because people can't feed off the free beer mentality...It sounds like to me it goes like this...
" I can't get it for free, so I will pay M$ $129.00 for Windows because I am too cheap to pay $30 for the personal edition of SuSE"
It's sad really..I wish the free beer people would dry up and blow away...hell, I spend more the $30 a week on cigarette ($5.00 a pack in California)...$30.00 for a whole OS and the ability to download 1000's of packages doesn't really strike me as too much to ask so that people who work hard can feed their families. *shrug*
Regards, -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.