CybeRider
Trusted Helper
As a consumer myself I can partially understand some disappointment. However, not specifically for Minix, I have to accept that the thing that keeps a company in business is selling, to pay the jobs, not improving the products they sold forever like if they were Barcelona cathedral.
Minix still has some of the best machines of it's kind, even with some eventual glitches, you can hardly find a better price/quality match elsewhere. I feel most consumers are quite happy with what they got. Besides, we also have this outstanding forum to get support. Everyone is free to think the ones like myself are not high demanding, well I certainly am, but my Minix machines do exactly what I expect them to, so I can't feel like joining a crusade against the company that sold me a nicer than expectable product, that is able to carry an OS based on third party, to make it work with also third party apps.
Windoze, for instance, always showed us another way to deal with "improvements". You pay for an OS included in your machine to make it work with applications that are built specifically for that same OS. Even hardware evolves around their software! Yes, you get updates, most of the time we don't even know what they are for, two years later you pay again for a crippled OS version (full version costs 10 times a Minix box) because it all got obsolete, one year after that you have to buy a new computer for the new coming software to work, which you will have to pay to have it "improved" again and restart the cicle. Does it ever work well? Maybe for some it does, for others, mainly small companies needing to stay updated for the essentials, it is an expenses rollercoaster.
Am I, or anybody, prepared to pay for a Minix software improvement? Is Minix capable or free to adjust their product to the third party software and hardware that was built with other intentions but Minix's machines in mind? This is certainly no Microsoft holding a monopoly to enforce their ways.
I had the chance to witness for several times in the forum how Minix is taking care of some technical issues in an outstanding manner, even past guarantee period. Very few times in life we get the chance to see such great post selling support.
That is why I tend to go soft on criticizing Minix, as so far they deserve my full respect.
Minix still has some of the best machines of it's kind, even with some eventual glitches, you can hardly find a better price/quality match elsewhere. I feel most consumers are quite happy with what they got. Besides, we also have this outstanding forum to get support. Everyone is free to think the ones like myself are not high demanding, well I certainly am, but my Minix machines do exactly what I expect them to, so I can't feel like joining a crusade against the company that sold me a nicer than expectable product, that is able to carry an OS based on third party, to make it work with also third party apps.
Windoze, for instance, always showed us another way to deal with "improvements". You pay for an OS included in your machine to make it work with applications that are built specifically for that same OS. Even hardware evolves around their software! Yes, you get updates, most of the time we don't even know what they are for, two years later you pay again for a crippled OS version (full version costs 10 times a Minix box) because it all got obsolete, one year after that you have to buy a new computer for the new coming software to work, which you will have to pay to have it "improved" again and restart the cicle. Does it ever work well? Maybe for some it does, for others, mainly small companies needing to stay updated for the essentials, it is an expenses rollercoaster.
Am I, or anybody, prepared to pay for a Minix software improvement? Is Minix capable or free to adjust their product to the third party software and hardware that was built with other intentions but Minix's machines in mind? This is certainly no Microsoft holding a monopoly to enforce their ways.
I had the chance to witness for several times in the forum how Minix is taking care of some technical issues in an outstanding manner, even past guarantee period. Very few times in life we get the chance to see such great post selling support.
That is why I tend to go soft on criticizing Minix, as so far they deserve my full respect.
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