On 10/07/2016 04:40 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
After all, you would not pay to use a Beta, you pay for a "finished" product. And you typically have to pay for the next version that should have significant changes.
In theory but what about ... Oh wait a moment, I didn't pay for Linux![1] Come to that, I look at the people who *HAVE* paid for MS-Windows and see that they are going though even though they did not knowingly sign up as testers, and get a 'product' that is a lot more unstable and awkward and irritating than any version of Linux I've had since I switched of OpenSUSE at about 5.something. And unlike MS-Windos, each release has not been a massive new learning project; the basic 'pattern' principles of *NIX that I learnt in the 1970s have served me well, while everything about MS-Windows seems 'sui generis'. Heck, people seem to need retraining courses even with a new release of MS-Office; I recall that happening at one company I was working for that was sucking at the MS teat and saying that it was more cost effective than Linux or OSX because there was a greater pool of expertise. Ha, bloody ha ha. [1] Well, OK, I paid for DVDs and for the bandwidth to download the ISO to burn onto them, but I was buying those DVDs to do backups anyway and the network costs were a 'sunk cost' anyhow. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org