Why does the retail box matter? (openSUSE 11.0 ready for pre-order)
Retail box? What’s up with that, right? We’re all about the free downloads over here, right? Yes, but… there’s a method to the madness of offering a retail box as well.
First, don’t forget that the retail box has a very long history for SUSE. We want to continue to provide the retail box for long-time users who still want to get openSUSE that way — and for new Linux users who may not be up for downloading openSUSE to take their first shot at installing an OS.
Of course you can get openSUSE 11.0 for free, and I hope millions will, but I’m also hoping this release will do well in retail. One of the fallacies I hear over and over again about the Linux community is that we don’t like to pay for things. My belief is that people will spend money when there’s something of value above and beyond the bits themselves.
So, what’s worthwhile in the retail box above and beyond the bits? The biggies are:
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re: excuses
We are stockholders of Novl
By "We" you mean you.
we and you
Just sometimes you sound like you're speaking for Tuxmachines or including Tuxmachines or me in your "We."
re: we and you
Yeah, that's what I always thought.
Back to the topic - who would PAY ($60 bucks no less) for the OPENSUSE version? I can see paying for the Enterprise version but seems relatively stupid to pay for a cardboard box (especially since DiscountLinuxDVD.com has them for $1.99 - but no cardboard box).
boxed set
Well, it does come with 3 months tech support and a nice official manual. That might be of value to the new user. Posting to user forums can be intimidating to some. So, they might have some takers. They stated they didn't expect to sell many, but wanted to make them available.
My first Linux success came in a $25 box from Wal-Mart. Mandrake 7.2. I kept that box for years... oh hey, it's still there on the bottom of a bookshelf.
...sitting next to boxes of Icepack Linux 1.0, Caldera 2.4, Kondara 2000. No wonder Mandrake won.
re: boxed set
Might be worth the $60 just to have some fun with their support people. "....jump 20 minutes into the support call..Ok, I finally found the power button, do I push it?.."
I had a friend that recv'd the wrong cell phone and the company (**cough**verizon***cough**) at first wouldn't fix their mistake. So every day for a month he'd call customer support and use their support time with questions like: "Do I have to press the numbers in a certain order?" Apparently they finally figured out it would be cheaper to just send him the phone he ordered.
p.s. - I still have a sealed in the wrapper SCO OpenServer Box (with disks and manuals) if anyone wants to expand their collection of useless software.
re: boxed set
p.s. - I still have a sealed in the wrapper SCO OpenServer Box (with disks and manuals) if anyone wants to expand their collection of useless software.
lolololol
Oh hey, I didn't even mention the stack of useless CDs. I got CDs going back to Red Hat 6, Slackware 7 and SuSE 7.
not that I'm a packrat or anything...
Re: boxed set
Yeah, I bought boxed sets early on for a couple of reasons. One, it was a way to financially support Linux, and two, Mandriva included some relatively well written printed manuals in their boxed set--and since I was just learning Linux, I would pick them up and read them in my spare moments.
Can't remember my first Mandrake box, 7.something--I finally threw it out a couple of years ago.
I always wondered what atang's "we" referred to? Figured he was a siamese twin or he'd cloned himself?