-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2006-05-15 at 23:50 +0200, Pascal Bleser 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.
Market share. Spread SUSE Linux, grow the community,
IMO, they would get more of that with the admin book included. More sales the better. This way, they will get mostly firstimers (repeaters will download) - and firstimers need manuals.
make money with SLES, SLED, ...
That would not be affected.
In my guess the current Novell Linux strategy is "the more publicity the better". And indeed they give away their good work for nothing currently, so there is only a small market for the box. But a huge spreading of the box content...
Right. I even think it's a good concept. Mostly because it is available as a free download (I guess), SUSE 10.0 has had a huge gain. At least the Packman download stats have tripled since 10.0 has been released.
Let's hope with them.
Yep.
cheers
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