Besides, you can download the thing, for free! The only reason somebody would buy the boxed set is to support Mandrakesoft, or they:No ! give me a good reason to buy a ppc distro ! mandrake sell 3 CD,
exactly what I can download. Why PPC is not interesting ? Why nobody buy
PPC ?
Actually, I think you're having this wrong. People are reluctant to buy boxed set of PPC not because it's available (if that would be truth, nobody would buy boxed sets from Mandrake). It's becouse the release cycle is too long and it's future vague.
- don't have the bandwidth;
- don't know somebody that has the bandwidth;
- don't know somebody that has the CD's already.
For the consumer OS, I think RedHat has got a brilliant model in place. They give the OS away for free (like mdk also does), but you'll need to pay for easy updates. Or be nagged ever 30 or 60 days by a questionaire.
Problem is, with urpmi (and the apps on top of it), you're giving away the possibility to charge for easy updates. Technically perfect, not so brilliant from a business point of view.
regards,
Stefan
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