Moving from SCO to Suse Linux

[John Esak]

> As for the first comment, can I inquire as to why you consider filePro or
> BackupEdge the whole OS...the car rather than the accessories?  I don't
> follow your logic, so I can't even debate it further without
> clarification.

The analogy has fallen apart. Cars, radios, etc. I was trying to show that
your analogy was inadequate or misled in the first place. Let's keep it at
software. The simple truth is if you buy software and open it... it's yours.
The company can't be concerned with whether they have a "trusting"
relationship with you or not. You have the ability to use that opened app
wherever you want, copy it, give it back, still use it and then ask for
another one on a different platform??  To do the same thing all over again

I hate analogies... but a better, closer one would be. Go into a store, buy
a CD of Duran Durn. Copy it. Bring it back and say you really meant to get
the DVD of the video of the first song on the CD... They give it to you and
take back the CD (yeah, that will happen... :-)  Then you copy the DVD and
bring it back to say, Heck, I meant I really wanted the new mpeg version of
it all for your new ipod-like Real Networks player... They take back the DVD
and give you a napster credit card to get the download.... Do you see any of
this happening? Do you see any reason for it??

When someone buys *and this is important* and _uses_  a software product on
a particular platform... then claims after some time, say a year, say more
like three years, that they are moving to new hardware and wanting to switch
to a newer version of that software on the new hardware... there is NO
reason, incentive, obligation, ethic or anything else compelling the company
to either give them that new software as a trade-in or trade-up... reduced
price, etc. The user has gotten the use of the product (to sound redundant)
already... they are going to get more use out of the new one... and the
possibility exists that the old server is going to keep working with the old
software as well. All this combines to make it very reasonable, that
changing platforms should cost full price. It's open, you bought it. I agree
with this and expect it, because it is fair to the company writing and
selling the software... yes, even one making a product called OneGate.

John