Kevin Dupuy wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:09 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Kevin,
you're right that the box is smaller than before but the manuals you're asking for are available as PDFs on the media. We do not have the box anymore in most of the stores. This is indeed a lost marketing way but this is both a result of a changing environment where many more users prefer to download for free (I know there are others) instead of willing to pay the box price - and a different company that does not go aggressively into the stores. We had a hard time pushing the box on the shelves in the end - and even where it is still today, you see far smaller numbers:-(
Andreas
Hey Andreas, First off, regarding the documentation, I am glad that the PDFs are offered, what I was referring to was to reorganize the Start Up guide, which is printed in the box, to include short tours of the desktop environments in the printed manual.
I think there are enough new users that would be interested in paying a relatively small fee (under $100USD) and getting a good boxed edition (meaning the printed manual I spoke of above, the full system, possibly with legal codecs in the system for paying customers, and just some small cheap openSUSE stickers or decals).
As far as the different company (I'm assuming you're referring to Novell here, correct me if I'm wrong) well, that's a problem that I suppose will always be there.
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