Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (328 mails)

[N B Day <nday@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 09:54 +0100, Stephan Binner wrote:
> On Friday 19 December 2008 03:09:02 Kevin Dupuy wrote:
>
> > The point is, people have pre-ordered this boxed edition with the
> > expectation of receiving it at the same time or not too far after the
>
> Who do they expect it? Was it written somewhere/said by someone? I only 
> remember "free shipment if you pre-order" alike.
>
> Bye,
>    Steve

Quoting from the confirmation email I got from Digital River:

Product SKU: 662644473598
Product Name: openSUSE 11.1 (Pre-Order) (Pre-Ordered)
Anticipated Released Date: December 18, 2008
Qty Ordered: 1
Amount: $59.95

"Anticipated Released Date: December 18, 2008" certainly implies (to me
anyway) shipment well in advance of 5 January.

I have been buying the boxed edition since 9.0, mostly to encourage
SuSE/Novell to keep packaging it this way, since I could obviously just
download it or get it from the likes of LinuxCD in France.  

I don't understand why you can't go to your local Radio Shack and pick
up a boxed edition or order it from Amazon.  This is how I first
discovered SUSE, and the existence of a boxed edition with actual
printed manuals was crucial in convincing some of the people I worked
for to let me install it on university-owned systems.  The subsequent
acquisition by Novell also helped, since this was a name they knew.

The fact that you can only get it via DR is really crappy marketing, and
the delay without explanation or apology, accompanied with snark from
SUSE people (as above) piles the s**t even deeper.  Buying the box is
one of the few ways many of us can contribute to the distro.  I'm
re-thinking this now since it hasn't made any difference.

  
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