Le Mercredi 24 Septembre 2003 12:54, Adam Williamson a �crit :I agree that this is a good approach to encourage people to join, but for the comment of the boxed-set, that just seems to be more-or-less a joke.
No, they don't. I think it's intended to encourage people to join the
Club. I wouldn't exactly be surprised if someone were to put up a BT for
the ISOs, though...
Two weeks ago, I had a private discussion with Jacques Le Marois about this.
It is necessary to encourage people who are participating. The club is an easy
way to participate giving an important source of income.
It is important to improve the advantages for the members of the club.
The download edition will be availaible for anybody when the boxes will be
available.
It is sure that some "piracy" will appear. But don't care... This can give a
taste of the forbidden fruit ! and give newcomers ;-)
9.0 and 9.1 boxes never hit the shelves here at the main stores such as Fry's Electronic, CompUSA or BestBuy. One day one lonely box of 8.2 was sitting at Fry's next to lots and lots of boxes of Redhat 9, Suse 8.2, and current versions of Lycoris, Lindows, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Redhat and Suse boxes are usually at the store the day of the official release. And the store said that it doesn't have any preferences, just that they never received any 9.0 nor 9.1 retail boxes, otherwise they would put them on the shelves immediately.
Now 9.2 is being rushed out and I doubt we'll see those boxes appear in any of these stores either soon.
In my opinion that is something that Mandrake needs to put more effort in in order to get themselves noticed with the mainstream public. I know of quite a few people that just pick up a box at any of these stores to try them out just for the fact that they are available there while they were pondering through the store.
thx for a great distro and all the hard work involved by anyone at Mandrake and all you guys here on cooker.
Serge
