Re: Saving the System i: Fight Pervasive with Pervasive

Steve Richter wrote on 12/12/2006 10:00:33 AM:

However, if you sell me hardware or software, it doesn't cost you
any more whether I have 1 person or 100 using it!  I realize that 

there

are reasons for scaling pricing based on use (whether it be user-,
processor-, or other-based pricing) - software development is 

expensive,

so software vendors need large markets.  If you set one price for a 

given

piece of software, you have the battle between pricing it in the range 

of

smaller customers and needing to sell many copies, or pricing it 

higher

but selling less copies.  It just seems like there has to be a more
sensible way to do it than user-based!

ah, your a socialist ;)   I can see your point but would much prefer
paying per user than have IBM intentionally gear down the CPU.  As a
programmer trying to write great code, I almost consider that to be
criminal.

Well, I am Canadian.  Besides, if I buy a hamburger, and decide to share 
it with my wife instead of eating the whole thing, should I be charged 
extra?  If answering "no" makes me a socialist, than paint me red and call 
me Tommy (as in Tommy Douglas).
 

[on XP it's] very easy to install software,

You should try a Debian-based Linux distro ... apt-get install
<software-name>, wait for download, and you're done!

I did a Suse Linux install last month - I was very impressed. It went
faster, with fewer prompts than Windows.  But then I tried to program
Linux ...  forget about it. .NET is far superior to GCC.  Where is the
integrated call stack and exception handling support?? Downright
primitive ;)

Well - we were talking about installing software, not writing it.  Also, 
.NET can not be directly compared to GCC.  One is a run-time framework, 
one is a C compiler, unless I've completely missed the boat.  There is an 
implementation of the .NET framework for Linux - it's called Mono.  I'll 
leave it at that, because now I'm *way* OT. :)

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