On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:10:44PM +0200, Jerome Grimbert wrote: > > Excuse me to show my head in this discussion, I will bury it again soon.
excuse? I assume you want to contribute to SMSQ or at least use it so I am glad you show up here. > Richard Zidlicky makes some magical things to make me read > } > > } > Ah, but when you buy it from somebody, are you entitled to > } > bugfixes? > } > } no. You may buy support contracts (or register or whatever they > } call it) and than you have a better chance your favourite bugs > } get fixed. > > Chance, not warranty... > > } However everyone can download the complete sources, > } binaries, upgrades and bugfixes completely for free, or lacking > } an unmetered network connection order any CD eg from cheapbytes > } for prices around 5E. > > Stop looking at Linux, it was not done in a day. > It's better with MS: No source, some bugfixes in service pack, > but anyway, MS recommend you to upgrade (the hardware as well, because > new OS requires more CPU for no visible additionnal service!). > And you have to pay for upgrade! > And some bugs are never corrected anyway. sure, compare it to whatever you like. If you wanted to pick MS as a really bad example I am not particularly impressed. The MS license is worse than this but MS have other strong points which we currently can't even dream about. Richard
