On Tuesday 23 December 2008 04:47:12 Kevin Dupuy wrote:
As I said earlier, there is an expectation that paying customers would at least be treated as well as normal users who download the product and receive their package on or near the same date as release.
Nothing can beat the ease and speed of online software distribution :-) - the reason why traditional software retail businesses are declining for years.
At the very least, the box should be able to be purchased from other merchants, even online, like Amazon or BustBuy.com.
I'm pretty sure we had this discussion also with last releases (search the archives?) and iirc there was no wholesaler found for this distribution.
What needs to be done is to figure out how to prevent this in the future
Do you want to suggest to delay public availability to three weeks after GM? Bye, Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org