On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 17:24 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 03:44:33PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > 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. > > > This is correct. It is no longer important to generate revenue with > openSUSE sales. > > openSUSE is however and will stay our flagship homeuser product, it will > not go away when no boxes are sold. > > The goal is mainly a presence in the desktop and homeuser market, and > also a trying bed for the latest and greatest new technologies. > > So you can feel good when downloading and installing it, you are welcome. > > (And I am the guy who gives you 2 years of security updates for it, > even if you just download it.) > > Ciao, Marcus Marcus, I really appreciate the effort you et al have put forth in all these years to make SuSE the superior product I think we all agree that it is...secure and stable (well, a glitch here-and-there along the way...)
The question wasn't whether to download or buy...I've nearly every boxed set since 6.2, because I'm on a modem here, no dsl, cable, or satellite. I'm looking at 10 boxes on the shelf, and with the exception of 10.1, every one was a good deal for me, and I felt like a small contributor. >From responses on this forum, it appears the 10.2 deliveries are happening overseas...but not here in the US. THAT is the question! -- Tom in NM SuSE 9.3/Evolution 10:20am up 19:40, 2 users, load average: 0.19, 0.13, 0.10 ==== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
