On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 21:10, Matthew wrote:
Always been that way for SuSE for quite awhile, unless you wait for a month for FTP downloads. Yes, the packaged software, with non-free parts will cost money, but you should also expect more (and know that the money you spent will be going to open source projects such as KDE).
Yeah, I forgot to mention this in my reply. This is the way I've always looked at it. I pay for SuSE (or Mandrake or Red Hat or whatever, I've bought lots of distros) and in return I'm funding the development of software I can always use, regardless if no one wraps it up neat and nice like SuSE does. It's always still there. I may just get a crappier version of the whole bundle when the day comes that the big companies decide to charge too much. Hopefully that day won't come in SuSE's case. Hopefully they're smarter than that, but the point is that my money didn't go to waste. It paid for development that is going to continue to benefit me and other users for some time. Preston