Hi, On Tue, 16 May 2006, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2006-05-15 at 23:49 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
But... what is the point in producing a box in a way that will have less sales? I must be dumb, I don't see it.
Reduce costs, for a so thought "not much profit" part.
But if they can make some profit of it, why don't do it? Then there is prestige. I will not be able to show the box to convince new linuxers...
They could sell it as a book with some software included ;-)
Already the 10.0 box looked like "made in China". Previous boxes had given a feeling of "made in Germany"...
True... I have a 6.1 version here, that makes 9.3 a poor brother...
I guess they have decided to make some distinct profit NOT. Must be a part of a higher strategy, and see what all they did lately. So the cheap box is ok with me. In Germany today, all the computer magazines add SUSE-10.1 DVDs for no additional cost. Linux-User tries to top them all: a special edition full of teaching articles, only SUSE-10.1. This is a much bigger scene than you ever can reach with a luxury box. I guess if the day has come that Novell is thinking "now the Linux desktop has the quality to reach the masses" they may return to "mod" the box up again. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)