Hey, I'm happy now that I know how to get the free upgrades! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of peter Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 5:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mono-list] MonoDevelop 0.7
Carl Olsen wrote: >Microsoft does not release an upgrade every few months. > > Well, I don't want to start a flame war here, Carl :), but as I pointed out: * You don't have to upgrade SuSE every time a new version appears * You get 2 and a bit SuSE upgrades for the price of one MS upgrade - so that should keep you going for a bit * You get more software upgrades in a SuSE upgrade. If we just look at the office suite. MS Office costs something like $200 dollars, and from what I see on http://www.nextag.com/2003-microsoft-office-upgrade/search-html the upgrades cost about the same. So one purchase of XP plus Office comes to something like $400 (conservatively) and we haven't even started talking about the price of VS yet! Even the academic price for that is in the region of $150, I think, if my memory and currency conversion head is working. So you'd still be in pocket after one SuSE purchase and 5 upgrades. That should see you through from one MS upgrade to the next. As I've posted recently, I do think there are problems and SuSE is not perfect - but I don't think it can be attacked on price. On some other things, may be ;) but not on price. Cheers Peter _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
