Re: when will it end?

[Redeeman <redeeman@metanurb.dk>]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 21:09 -0500, David Masover wrote:
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> Hans Reiser wrote:
> | Spam wrote:
> |
> |>
> |>  Windows 2000 and later comes with a lite version of Diskeeper from
> |>  Executive Software.
> |>
> | MS charges for the OS, so that business model works for them.  Nobody
> | will buy a heavy resizer from us if there is a lite one.  That would be
> | as likely to happen as their buying a support contract. The lite
> | software is reiser4 without a resizer.
> |
> | Such is my feel of the market.
> 
> Perhaps.  I'd just feel a little cheated.  Currently, without a
> repacker/resizer, I would have to borrow/buy another hard drive to get
> my data off reiser4, and it seems that it would slowly become more
> fragmented.
hmm.. well you would certainly need that with another filesystem too

> 
> What about plugins?  Application patches?  The repacker seems sort of
> essential, and definitely a lot of work, but your expertise would also
> be very useful for things like, say, a reiser4 backend to a traditional
> SQL database.  I sincerely doubt people would be willing to pay much for
> something that they see as "free" with Windows, while there's some real
you do pay in windows, but also, its more needed with ntfs and fat32 i
believe
> potential here to create something entirely unique.  Not unique in its
> benchmarks, but in its usability.
> 
> I know I'm somewhat biased, but I do prefer something entirely
> proprietary to something which is sort of "half-open", like
> WineX/Cedega, Lustre, etc.  It leaves a really bad taste in my mouth
> when I start to get hooked on a product, only to find later on that I
> have to buy some really critical feature.  Like all those "GI-Joe
> Grenade Launcher" with "GI-Joe sold separately" fine-print labels.
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