Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (189 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 23 December 2008 03:21:28 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2008-12-23 at 02:23 +0100, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:03:04 -0800, you wrote:
> > > Translation: we can't sell boxes because we don't try to sell boxes.
> >
> > No! Translation: We're in the market to make money, not loose it.
> > Novell is a commercial company, not a charity.
>
> Precisely! That's the very reason that Novell should make it interesting
> for clients to buy the box, and buy again next year.

Unfortunately that's not easy with the way the retail business in the US 
works.  We've been there and learned from it...

For openSUSE the retail business is not the top 1 prio - distribution to many 
people is more important.  If we would want to make money with retail, we 
would need to invest in the retail channel, would need to deliver the free 
version of openSUSE later or in different packaging as the retail version etc.  
It did not work out for us...

Andreas
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