On 10/8/2011 5:40, Jim Henderson wrote:
> It's hard to understand why people have trouble affording a single hard
> drive when you buy in such bulk quantities.

And remember that you're not really their big customer. When 85% of your 
sales go to the OEMs, worrying about whether this one guy can afford to 
upgrade his disk doesn't really make sense. Especially since if you can't 
afford a $50 disk, you can't afford a $200 OS. :-)

> After all, on Windows, you have CIFS/SMB available on all systems by
> default.  You take it for granted on Windows, but for the rest of the
> world, there is a choice.

Actually, it's there by default, but it doesn't have to be. You don't need 
to have any networking installed at all if you don't want. Not even TCP/IP.

> upgraded to each incremental pre-release alpha, beta, and release
> candidate on several of their internal servers.

I can imagine that would screw stuff up. Most people don't design upgrades 
to deal with every intermediate release of the software.

> RPM does a pretty good job of dependency management,

I think it's more that the programmers don't. They assume you have enough 
disk space, a fast connection, and etc.  I bet the people writing the 
editors would avoid the need to include SAMBA if you said "we'll give you 
$1000 for every package you don't depend on."

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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