Onsdag den 6. december 2006 07:13 skrev Doug McGarrett: > 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
I don't think SuSE's making money on selling hard boxes. At best, it just balances. Just guessing. Perhaps a new business model is called for. So stop selling expensive boxes, just sell a small envelope with a DVD and a large poster, some stickers and whatever in, together with a thin "how to get started right now" manual. I want manuals too. But I don't want the ordinary "simple" manual, "getting started" (whatever) that's usually in the box. I want a real thick brick filled with hi-tech details and how-tos. That's too expensive to print, of course. So, as a paying user, let me have the envelope and a voucher with a code on, to let me download/on-line read the real thick tech manual. Let that be what I pay for. And let me be able to pay for actual real support too. -- ------------------------------ Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard ------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
