I understand what your saying and for the most part I agree. The thing that burns me ( and I thing other ppl) is they want $350 for an office program that necessitates an upgrade to Wk2/XP if you want it to work at it optimum. Of course if you can pay for online/telelphone support - this is ok too, but at $125/incident it's costly. SuSE's support package seems comprehensive and reasonable cost wise. I just think of all the businesses, corporation, and SOHO's they will have to pay a very high price for an office program and the associated license per copy. Shift the budget arouned "get me accounting", call all the execs for a meeting please. I can just see the VP/Pres/CIO/CTO, etc... looking around to figure out it the cost and new license agreement is worth it. I don't picture alot of happy faces. Just my $0.02 U.S. Cheers. Curtis :) On Monday 04 June 2001 11:47 am, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Actually, I agree with this. It's old. 4 years old. If you notice SuSE's support supports the current version and one version back..so for example come June 15th..it will support 7.1 and 7.2 .. and at that time 7.0 will fall by the wayside. It's very hard to support software that has out lived it's lifecycle. Some may not agree with this..but then again..I don't care. ;)
Current + 1 version back is a pretty good policy. It would be nightmare to support things such as XFree86 3.3.3.1 and try to get a new video card to work..the list goes on.
I am also kinda sick to my stomach that I don't disagree with this policy.
* Curtis Rey (crrey@home.com) [010604 09:33]: ->That's right Steve and Bill - piss off everyone! ->READ ALL ABOUT IT: ->http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,51565,00.asp -> ->Cheers. Curtis :)