Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4294 mails)

[Anders Norrbring <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Damon Register skrev:
> Curtis Rey wrote:
> > Bestbuy/CompUSA/Pick_A_Store.  Instead they partner up with DIgRiv and 
> > charge rates for Over Night shipping determined by distance?   When 
> > the USPS rates are a lot more palletable?  Novell really really makes 
> > me wonder sometimes.
> I am really growing to dislike UPS price gouging.  I haven't visted the
> DigRiv site yet so I don't know who is doing the shipping but I noticed
> yesterday when I sent a small package, the UPS price was high even for
> ground.
>
> > I'll stay with OpenSUSE for now, thank you very much.
> I wonder if others will respond similarly and so retail sales will
> do poorly then Novell will say that's why they didn't bother with
> retail in local stores.  Remember the comment a Novell executive made
> about the MS/Novell deal: "we didn't get stupid overnight".
>
> Even though I really liked having the book, I think I will also just
> use openSuSE 10.2.  I am in the process of making the CDs now

Seems like that's a US "problem" only. I haven't seen that shipping 
extravaganza anywhere else. And mind you, the US is a relatively small 
market for Linux in the global perspective...

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Anders Norrbring
Norrbring Consulting