I still think they should move away from the CDs and towards distribution via limited access ftp through membership fees. They could give those members also the ability to burn a copy of an official release iso pack and not only an evaluation one. SuSE then could give access sooner to the ones who are paying and they also could give those members access to beta ftp versions before they come out to lessen the amount of bugs once officially released. It would bring customers closer to the development process. They could also create a SuSE memberbook series which gets revised every 2 years and sent out to all members. That they members have documentation but don't have 4 versions of almost the same manuals. I know it sounds like a lot of work to implement but it may be useful and the right way to cut costs for SuSE as well as SuSE users. SuSE comes with a lot of packages. I can't imagine the amount of work it is to keep track of them all. I always wondered why SuSE doesn't create a 'community' which takes care of packaging the smaller numerous apps. mk
From: "Paul W. Abrahams"
Reply-To: abrahams@acm.org To: SuSE Mailing List Subject: Re: [SLE] Attention SuSE'ers: New Distro Suggestions laid out, waddaya think? (was: [SLE] SuSE Needs a "Guru Edition"!) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:06:38 -0400 "Timothy R. Butler" wrote:
SUGGESTION to SuSE: Why not poll your loyal users about things like what the Pro and Personal editions should have, and if a "Guru" edition is viable? Remember, community is what makes Linux, and I can't think of anything more in the spirit of open source than keeping up with what your users want in their Linux distro...
Pricing suggestion: ...
Right now there doesn't seem to be any real price break for registered owners of previous editions. Were there such a break, some of us would be more likely to upgrade.
Paul Abrahams
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