Sorry, there probably should have been a smiley after the IBM comment -- I was refering to the investment IBM made in SuSE a few weeks ago. Please also note that I just this very afternoon went and bought yet another box of SuSE. There's a variety of reasons for that -- because I'm not that big a fan of sysadmin work, I'd prefer to install off of CD, it's cleaner, and I don't have to ferret through tons of FTP sites to keep software basically upgraded -- all the stuff I want is right on the CD set. (The fact that Earthlink/Mindspring uses PPPoE for xDSL also throws a curve into FTP installation.) But mainly, no matter what impression my original post made, I'm personally in favor of contributing to SuSE's well-being -- they won me over when they included Sybase on their 6.2 distro. BTW: To the person that commented about Anthrax at Microsoft HQ, it didn't happen in Washington/Microsoft HQ -- the incident occured at a MS mail processing center in Reno, Nevada. Later, --Gregory On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Philipp Thomas wrote:
- Gregory Sawyer [Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:39:22 -0700]:
Marketing, etc.) Like newspapers, broadcast television and colleges/universities, this is not where SuSE makes its money.
Wrong :) SuSE does make a substantial amount of money from selling the boxes.
and apparently by being a part of IBM's R&D division.
Where did you get that idea from? It's nowhere near reality!
but I don't think that SuSE is going to go out of business just because I miss paying for a release or two.
No, not because of you alone :) But if enough people think like this .....
Don't get me wrong. I'm not blaming anyone for taking an out time from updates. If I wouldn't get a copy for free, I most probably wouldn't buy every new version.
Philipp
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