You guys are forgetting that people are complaining because Netraverse set
the wrong expectation. I knew it as I was in the list and will not buy it
unless I know it works on 2.4.
We are not complaining because Netraverse is charging money for their
product.
And also I dont buy the VM excuse in the 2.4 kernel. Netraverse had more
than enough time to follow kernel development, and this is not the only
product that uses VM subsystem extensively.
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Jose
Mirles wrote:
> Larry Marshall wrote:
>
> >> There seem be several misconceptions here.
> >>
> >> i) The linux kernel is an open source project and the direction of the
> >> 2.4 series kernel has been discussed, but been generally clear, for some
> >
> >
> > I don't want to get into a debate here but there is no
> > "misconception". My point was that Netraverse didn't change the kernel
> > to break their software, requiring everyone to upgrade - someone else
> > did. Open or closed, it was not Netraverse. Nevertheless, it is the
> > kernel that broke the application software, not the other way around.
> >
> ------------------snip-------------------------------------
>
> For the most part I agree with Larry. I don't know about the virtues of
> kernel
> 2.4 and don't know about the difficulties Netraverse has adopting it,
> but I feel
> that they have a qualtity product and if it takes time to adopt a higher
> kernel
> then I will wait.
>
> With all of the complaints of Windows being rush out the door and GPF's
> I am surprised that so many want a tiny company to emulate an industry
> giant right down to the half baked software.
>
> I also feel that Netraverse can charge whatever they want and whatever the
> maeket will stand. Businesses are there to generate income. That is the
> bottom line. If a person doesn't like the fee, they can go to VMWare.
>
> I just hope Netraverse keeps going the way they are. Win4Lin is a fantastic
> product, backed by a really good company. I registered version 2 and figured
> I would have to paid an upgrade fee for version 3. Afterall, that is the
> standard practice elsewhere. As you can imagine, I was very pleased to see
> that for me it is a free upgrade. I know that version 4 will be charged, but
> the way I see it, if you like the product, you should have no problems
> supporting
> the company.
>
>
> Jose
>
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