On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:00:20 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Btw SuSE has excellent user and admin manuals, included as pdf and > html. If you want the printed version you'll have to buy the box. These > explain all these basic things. > > Volker I suspect this is part of the problem. people expect free beer all of the way. no books, they cost money. no modem drivers they cost money. no boxed distros cos its supposed to be free. IMHO its not a great attitude. although many despise "corporate" linux, the likes of redhat, suse and ibm have contrubuted heaps and jeaps of lines of code to open source projects and they need to live! i'd wager that many people who are reluctant to spend funds on a good linux book have spent $2-300 on bundled billyware [1], and may even have a copy of one of those endless "Using MS Office in 10 Easy Lessons" books. But they won't spend on linux cos it is supposed to be free! Volker could you bring your SuSE boxed documentation to the meeting on Thursday so i can pass them around for people to see? [1] there are a few chch retailers who sell boxes without an OS (not many with laptops unfortunately). They advertise the separate price of Billyware XP Home/Professional OEM. It makes it easy to see the price you surely pay for the "bundled" versions at other retailers. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
