At 07:50 PM 12/5/2006 -0900, John Andersen wrote: >Content-Disposition: inline > >On Tuesday 05 December 2006 15:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I want a box thank you.. so as not to have to chase off all over the place >> when one or another thing goes pop! haul out the disc reinstall whatever >> was there before the video/sound/hard drive/ and other assorted bits n >> bobs fry themselves. > >Well, in the short run (before chirstmas - aledgedly) ye shall have a box. >A green one op a blue one, - your choice. > >Realistically, what's the difference between a downloaded gold master >an a boxed master? > >Ultimatly, with the increase in bandwidth, I suspect the day of the >"boxed anything" is going away. Down load a cd's worth of stuff >and install from that (which Gentoo has done for years as the >default way of installing, but other distros support as well). > >Chaseing all over is an excellent application of computers, and the net. >They do it well. If ZMD keeps getting better I don't see the chaseing >as the big problem. > >That means the Distros need a new way to make money. Might >be paying customers will get faster servers, or earlier access, or >even actual tech support. I could see a distro supplying only >initial releases and security patches to the general public, and >inplace upgrades to paying customers, so that you don't >have to wait for the next release to get something new/cool. > >I can reach out from this chair and touch 4 boxed sets, and walk >across the room to 3 more. > >I don't mind paying for them. > >But I don't mind paying a different way either. > >Make me an offer! >-- >_____________________________________ >John Andersen >--
I want a box, too, with a real manual. For the price of a download, as it's going to be, I deserve a manual and real disks. I should find a manual on a d/l and print out several hundred pages on my printer? Not likely! If SuSE won't do it, somebody will. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
