On 11/10/06, JJ Gitties <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/10/06, Arie Reynaldi Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:JJ, you're not answering Sloan's question. He asked cause you're being
double standart. You accept using windows for a living, but you wont
allow Novell get more money from MS...
Ohh. Now I see what you are asking. What do I care how the money goes to Microsoft? Because this is different. Perhaps if it was a different company involved it would not matter.
Sorry. I want to add. It's like this, i i hope my bad writing makes sense.
I like the idea of thinking, well I am going out of my way to make sure x number of copies get purchased becuase I know that that money goes to the distro and supposedly help to ensure that that distro continues to be worked on and released.
With this change now, some of that money goes to ensure the distor, some of the money goes to ensure the next version of MS SQL and MS Project get made. From my point of view, the MS products do not need any helping hand in any way.
I guess if we knew exactly how much money from the boxed sales goes to MS, it might put things in perspective. Are we talking a couple of cents or 40% of the sale?
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jjgitties,
"*We* need to convince OpenSUSE to fork, or let 'em die. To bad, it is a wonderful Distro. But their parent company is NOT our friend."
