On 21/05/06, Per Jessen
Kevanf1 wrote:
I am surprised there haven't been cases taken to such bodies as Trading Standards (a UK official consumer body) with paid for distro's. It will happen
I'm not surprised and I doubt if it will happen. If a Trading Standards body could do something about software vendors and their bugs, surely they should have been on Microsofts case long ago. Secondly, I think the UK Trading Standards body has far more important things to do.
Regard the SUSE distro, it isn't perfect. Never was, most probably never will be. It's very, very good, perhaps even the best there is, but there are simply far too many hardware combinations out there for it to be perfect and work with everyone of them.
So when you buy the retail product and hit something that doesn't work, contact support or go straight to bugzilla. Bugzilla may not be for the newbie, but then again _most_ newbies (or Windows-converts) will probably not have a problem.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
Sorry but I do not share your enthusiasm for SuSE support (official that comes with the boxed version). I had to ask for help back in 9.1 days.... I was truly amazed at how rubbish it was. I eventually found the answer to my problem in the various forums (I forget the original problem). I do agree that people would have wanted something doing about Microsoft. In my very humble opinion I still do think that the millions of users of MS products (the properly purchased ones that is) should all get together and collectively sue Microsoft for selling rubbish. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== PLEASE DON'T drink and drive it's not clever, it's just stupid. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR