____/ owl on Saturday 29 September 2007 22:50 : \____
> DFS <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>
>>> Microsoft might have to try to compete on merit.
>>
>> When will Linux and open source?
>>
>> I saw with my own eyes dozens of $1.99 boxes of Suse 8.1 sitting on a
>> Microcenter endcap for weeks, people walking by it and not even taking a
>> second glance. Imagine if the price had been $199.99...
>>
>> Or imagine it was Windows XP for $1.99... you'dl have customers lining up
>> out the door.
>>
>
> My local Office Max put Excel 2007 on sale for $5.00.
> On the first day alone, 13,107 people came in to buy it, making
> MS a cool $100,000.
SuSE 8.1 was an excellent O/S. I used it for almost 4 years, until 3-4 months
ago when my hard-drive died and I finally said goodbye to SUSE (8.1 was not
yet infected by the 'Novell management virus', let alone the Novell branding).
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