I Believe In Paying For Linux
Message ID: 31782
Posted By: bill_beebe
Posted On: 2003-08-22 21:00:00
Subject: I Believe In Paying For Linux
Recs: 4
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I buy a new copy of SuSE ($79) every time they make a major release, and then upgrade my SuSE development and test system with it.
I pay Redhat $60/year for a modest support subscription, and download their releases. It's installed on a second development and test system.
I have a subscription with BSD Mall so I can get FreeBSD releases on CD-ROM (about $26/release, two to three times a year). I install and run it on yet another machine.
In the past I've purchased software from Ximian, Borland, Microsoft, Adobe, Sun, and others over the last few decades.
Note, however, what I pay for my software. I am quite willing to pay up to the low hundreds for my choice in software (yeah, I'm a geek). But I'm not going to pay high extortionist prices to SCO. I voted with my wallet long ago against the original SCO by first going to Microsoft because Microsoft was cheaper for what needed to be done. After a few years of MSPain, I switched to early versions of Linux (Slackware, then Redhat) and I haven't looked back.
We're not rip-off artists. We're frugal. OS development and tools are now decades old. If software were based on the same development cycle as the microprocessors we run it own, our software would cost under $10 and be rock solid. Instead we have Microsoft that continues to cost hundreds per copy, and MS tools that cost in the thousands, and all we get in return is a steady stream of virus/work alerts and patches to go with them, as well as the occasional reboot due to memory leaks or BSODs. And I'm not going to continue to pay the new digital robber barons such as Darl McBride and company for the right to have a selection of stable software. Darl and Caldera/SCO damn sure didn't write any of the code in question; they just got lucky and bought some very used stuff from old SCO (now Tarantella). They're not getting my money, nor anybody elses with any sense.
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Posted By: bill_beebe
Posted On: 2003-08-22 21:00:00
Subject: I Believe In Paying For Linux
Recs: 4
< rant>
I buy a new copy of SuSE ($79) every time they make a major release, and then upgrade my SuSE development and test system with it.
I pay Redhat $60/year for a modest support subscription, and download their releases. It's installed on a second development and test system.
I have a subscription with BSD Mall so I can get FreeBSD releases on CD-ROM (about $26/release, two to three times a year). I install and run it on yet another machine.
In the past I've purchased software from Ximian, Borland, Microsoft, Adobe, Sun, and others over the last few decades.
Note, however, what I pay for my software. I am quite willing to pay up to the low hundreds for my choice in software (yeah, I'm a geek). But I'm not going to pay high extortionist prices to SCO. I voted with my wallet long ago against the original SCO by first going to Microsoft because Microsoft was cheaper for what needed to be done. After a few years of MSPain, I switched to early versions of Linux (Slackware, then Redhat) and I haven't looked back.
We're not rip-off artists. We're frugal. OS development and tools are now decades old. If software were based on the same development cycle as the microprocessors we run it own, our software would cost under $10 and be rock solid. Instead we have Microsoft that continues to cost hundreds per copy, and MS tools that cost in the thousands, and all we get in return is a steady stream of virus/work alerts and patches to go with them, as well as the occasional reboot due to memory leaks or BSODs. And I'm not going to continue to pay the new digital robber barons such as Darl McBride and company for the right to have a selection of stable software. Darl and Caldera/SCO damn sure didn't write any of the code in question; they just got lucky and bought some very used stuff from old SCO (now Tarantella). They're not getting my money, nor anybody elses with any sense.
< /rant>
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