On Monday 25 December 2006 15:21, Tom Patton wrote: > Ok, now this is really wierd and disturbing... > > I just received a second reply from Digital River, and it conflicts > with the first "backorder" excuse.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no longer any real reason to purchase the commercial release of Novell's SuSE Linux, right? I want to support SuSE Linux development, but there has to be some kind of quid pro quo. As it stands, there simply is no up-side to purchasing the commercial release. We (North American purchasers) are forced to go through the Novell / Digital River (with whom I've had many successful and satisfactory transactions in the past) to acquire this release, implying there is not even the mere possibility of competitive pricing. Furthermore, the on-line repositories contain a superset of the package complement of the commercial product. From that perspective, it's simply foolish to purchase this release. It really seems that Novell does not even want to generate $ale$! My best guess is that openSUSE is just a means of beta testing the Enterprise products. Frankly, I'm fine with that, but I surely hope they don't count on purchases of the SuSE Linux product, 'cause there's just no reason to buy it. It's not that I'm going to switch distributions, but my several-year-long practice of buying a copy of every SuSE Linux distribution, including a couple I didn't end up installing, seems to be at an end. As I said: Correct me if I'm wrong. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
