>Yeah, then there's that really big market of Linux users who love to
>pay for software.
At the moment I see this as being the chief problem. There are a few
people that are willing to pay for stuff. Part of the problem is the stuff
you get for free is better quality in a lot of cases that what you pay for.
In that respect it rememinds me of OS/2, every commercial App I ever bought
for OS/2 except the one game I got, was of worse quality than the free
stuff.
I buy software all the time for the Mac, but the only commercial software
I've for Linux, with the exception of the backup software has gone unused
except for a brief tryout.
Note, I'm not commenting on the Linux software you mentioned trying to
sell, as I've never seen or heard of it.
>Frankly, Linux doesn't fit under the ten-year-rule. We'll need to
>wait until 2003 for that. Sure, it might run on old PCs, though.
Now this statement has a problem, namely that we only need to wait till
2001 for it to fall under the 10-year rule (I've been actively running it
since January '91). Got to agree that for the most part it's only
applicable to talk about it in respect to running it on old computers, OR
using it to tie old computers together (one of my uses).
Zane
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Received on Tue Sep 01 1998 - 10:55:02 BST