Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3434 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Bennett wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2008 6:43 AM, Kevin Dupuy <kevindupuy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:09 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > > Kevin,
> > >
> > > you're right that the box is smaller than before but the manuals you're
> > > asking for are available as PDFs on the media.  We do not have the box
> > > anymore in most of the stores.  This is indeed a lost marketing way but
> > > this is both a result of a changing environment where many more users
> > > prefer to download for free (I know there are others) instead of willing
>
> Here in Australia, one of the most popular IT mags (Australian
> Personal Computer - APC) which is predominately Windows, but also does
> reasonable coverage of other OS's, often (nearly always) has at least
> one Linux distro, either as a live version or as an ISO, on their
> cover DVD. They also have at least one major article re Linux. They
> are fairly current as well, publishing versions fairly close to the
> actual release.

In the U.S., all of the "General computing" magazines are so
heavily influenced by MS'es advertising dollars, that they
editorially constrained from even mentioning MS'es competitors,
other than to put them down (increasingly rare as MS'es
competitors tend to get torpedoed one way or another...).

The only way to get Linux in front of joe-average-user
is to keep it on store shelves, or try to rely on the
persuasion abilities of IT people.

But remember...having a product ON THE SHELF gives the
type of credibility that the typical MS user relies on.
To them, box on the shelf = credible product,
and "download" = crippleware products that want
their credit card numbers.



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