Onsdag den 6. december 2006 07:13 skrev Doug McGarrett:
At 07:50 PM 12/5/2006 -0900, John Andersen wrote:
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On Tuesday 05 December 2006 15:48, jfweber@gilweber.com wrote:
I want a box thank you.. so as not to have to chase off all over the place when one or another thing goes pop! haul out the disc reinstall whatever was there before the video/sound/hard drive/ and other assorted bits n bobs fry themselves.
Well, in the short run (before chirstmas - aledgedly) ye shall have a box. A green one op a blue one, - your choice.
Realistically, what's the difference between a downloaded gold master an a boxed master?
Ultimatly, with the increase in bandwidth, I suspect the day of the "boxed anything" is going away. Down load a cd's worth of stuff and install from that (which Gentoo has done for years as the default way of installing, but other distros support as well).
Chaseing all over is an excellent application of computers, and the net. They do it well. If ZMD keeps getting better I don't see the chaseing as the big problem.
That means the Distros need a new way to make money. Might be paying customers will get faster servers, or earlier access, or even actual tech support. I could see a distro supplying only initial releases and security patches to the general public, and inplace upgrades to paying customers, so that you don't have to wait for the next release to get something new/cool.
I can reach out from this chair and touch 4 boxed sets, and walk across the room to 3 more.
I don't mind paying for them.
But I don't mind paying a different way either.
Make me an offer! -- _____________________________________ John Andersen --
I want a box, too, with a real manual. For the price of a download, as it's going to be, I deserve a manual and real disks. I should find a manual on a d/l and print out several hundred pages on my printer? Not likely! If SuSE won't do it, somebody will.
--doug
I don't think SuSE's making money on selling hard boxes. At best, it just balances. Just guessing. Perhaps a new business model is called for. So stop selling expensive boxes, just sell a small envelope with a DVD and a large poster, some stickers and whatever in, together with a thin "how to get started right now" manual. I want manuals too. But I don't want the ordinary "simple" manual, "getting started" (whatever) that's usually in the box. I want a real thick brick filled with hi-tech details and how-tos. That's too expensive to print, of course. So, as a paying user, let me have the envelope and a voucher with a code on, to let me download/on-line read the real thick tech manual. Let that be what I pay for. And let me be able to pay for actual real support too. -- ------------------------------ Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard ------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org