On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 10:09:04PM +0000, Michael Treacy wrote:
> >cut a long story short....it's worth it.
>> I have to agree fully with what Brian said. I too am a SuSE user and I have
> no objections to paying for the whole box set. I have used their support
> once and was very pleased with the level of support I received.
<lots snipped>
Fair 'nuff. These arguments are perfectly valid. (In fact, I bought
SuSE 6.3 for the similar reasons). Supporting your chosen linux
distro is one important argument which I did leave out.
And by the way, I've been on both sides of the fence in terms of
having access to a fast internet pipe; That's why my points are
qualified by "esp, if you can download images/software or have someone
burn off a copy."
I reckon this thread has covered all the argument both for and against
buying boxed-packages.
Alan.
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