OH>> SuSE employees are programming a bunch of software. What I said is, that
OH>> there are people such as Koshelev Maxim (Downloader for X's author)
OH>> who build programs at least as big as all the suse programs (yast + some
OH>> bash scripts. It's not a 'bunch' of software imo), and get _NOTHING_. He
I could just take SuSE and list all the software SuSE people took part in
(X being one example). But that would be a waste of my time. Every person
following news knows that SuSE are not just packagers.
OH>> works pretty hard, you can compare his program to yast (just counted,
OH>> about 22,000 lines of code), and ofcourse that he is just an example of
OH>> lots of other people. I gave him for example, because of what he wrote in
OH>> his 'TROUBLES' file:
And so? Do you use this program? Did you sent him a cent? If not - what
the hell you want from SuSE? They did not oblige to support every free
software programmer in the world. Even one excellent ones. Life's a bitch,
and SuSE didn't make it so, neither they obliged to be Jesus C. and save
this world from all its problems.
OH>> This makes me think- why would suse get this money for others'
OH>> softwares too ? Think about it in a simple way- the company
They do not. If you would just take $10 for each program such as
Downloader (which is an excellent program, BTW) and add up, and
then add some $100 for packaging and QA that's what would SuSE cost if
they did so. However, they don't cost this much - they take for packaging,
QA and add-ons. For our time saved doing this. If it isn't worth it - you
have prefectly valid alternative of not using SuSE. Still there is a lot
of people that do it - so it makes sense, I guess. And yes, before you ask
that stupid question - using Microsoft makes a lot of sense for some too.
Now start crying "heresy!".
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