On Monday 07 June 2004 11:50 pm, Don wrote:
Well...let me that this one step further...
As I remember...linux was SUPPOSED to be this big, open source, FREE o/s and supporting tools/utils, FREE to the community, some kind of a FREE throwback to the commune and hippy days....this big community movement to provide a solid FREE environment that was supposed to be more robust that the virus ridden blue screen of death crap we get from someone else.
Well....has anyone tried to download a power-PC version of suse? Is anyone watching what's going on in the red hat arena?
Guess what folks, this stuff is beginning to cost, and cost alot, almost as much as Windoze$. And, I don't see it getting any cheaper.
It would appear that the gratis days are going to be short lived (both power and intel based, etc) and in short order I fear we're going to have to breakout the platinum cards for o/s upgrades...
What happened to the grand idea that everyone was telling me about?
I think the hook is getting set and the fish are going to be start to be reeled in....
JMHO....I could be wrong....nah...:) --------------------------------------------
Don, No need to send out 2 copies, I read the list mail, else how could I have seen the message in the first place? ;o) I know, it's easy to get carried away with the reply button when ranting. Actually, I do disagree with your thoughts. Linux is as it always was and that won't change, Linus and the guys saw to that. What the RH & SuSE folks make their money from is the hard work they put into these things to make them easy for us. Ever thought about how many days, months, it would take for you to put together the same amount of software? How about the support they give to business and the user, if they want it, would you be willing to do it for free? I think you just got things confused a bit and didn't think out your response before jumping on the keyboard. PowerPC SuSE, although discontinued as a package offering, it is still very much available via ftp install or as a business package. Where do you think the IBM powerpc Linux is coming from? Many of IBM servers are PowerPC, since they do make the chips, so having a Linux for it kinda helps, don't you think? As this is starting to get off topic and more rants than reason, we should take it to OT, if anyone wants to continue it please. This is not the list for ranting, most prefer reason. ;o) Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...