Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

[Michael Loeffler <michl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, 
On Sunday 07 December 2008, ab wrote:
> hi there,
>
> wondering why there arent any 11.1 rtm orders available in any of
> those suse shops that are linked from within the wiki.
>
> whats happening?
We will offer a retail box for openSUSE 11.1 again. We wanted to have 
a pre-order campaign with shop.novell and suseshop.de last week 
already but this got somehow delayed. This campaign should be up and 
running asap.

Best
Michael 
> btw: related question: does it still make sense to offer/buy a
> retail version of opensuse? what would be the best way to allow
> suse/novell to profit from opensuse developments and how would the
> funds from the enduser customers do the most good? i have been
> buying retail packages of opensuse for many years now, but maybe
> this method doesnt make any sense.
>
> is there any donation possibility for the opensuse projects or any
> other means? i would like to see the funds directly benefiting
> rather than wasting money for all those re-/e-/tailers, packaging,
> printing mostly useless manuals and manufacturing media down the
> production chain.
>
> should i rather donate directly to the opensource groups that come
> with todays suse distributions or something?
>
> any suggestions?
> cheers.
>
> p.s. german amazon seems to feature some 11.1 stuff after all. but
> not the official opensuse shop nor the novell shops.



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SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: 
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