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:-( I just can second this. With the distribution of broadband combined with the availibility of other Linux distributions for free download (Fedora, Ubuntu, Freespire etc.) the demand for a boxed version decreased significantly. So especially in North America we became more and more a niche product and brought in to little revenue for retail shops to keep us on the shelf. On the other hand with free download of openSUSE we achieve more users than
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Andreas Jaeger wrote: prior to our free download offering. Additional we offer free PromoDVDs for multipliers (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2008-01/msg00045.html) and we do covermounts in magazines. Michael
Andreas
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