Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3031 mails)

[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 06 February 2008 09:09:49 am Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

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> I think some other people have covered some of the problems with
> selling boxed product later in another thread, but I can just add --
> when I worked with Linux Mall, it was really difficult to do well
> selling boxed copies of distributions, because of the short release
> cycle and such. And that was when more people bought boxed copies due
> to sparse availability of broadband -- now, even though more people
> are using Linux, fewer people want to buy the box set.

Because you are talking about experienced users. For the new users, the 
converts, who don't know, which is what we are really talking about here, 
print on the box, in big bold letters: "Free Upgrades for Life" Then they can 
download to their hearts content, after they know they can.

Bob S
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