Re: [Cooker] Sad state of pre-releasing to consumers

[Mandrake Bugs]

on 10/31/00 4:42 AM, Guillaume Cottenceau at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> and listen our
> customers/users desires between each release.

Yeah, I notice that during the bitch sessions on the mailing lists after
every buggy release :-)

Seriously, Mandrake has become less and less stable since 5.3 (while,
granted, it has included more cutting edge stuff, but I worry about a distro
that actually manages to freeze my system out of the box).

> If you want to send a donation, please do ;-)), but anyway we also sell a
> big box as the Delux version with many comm apps (that cost us money) and
> documentation (id), so we can not cut the price much lower..

Bad decision - you should support the direct consumer market, as you might
be surprised how much you are kissing good-bye by turning them away (and
essentially telling them to burn their own CDs, and not give you money. As
you said, that doesn't contribute to your end-of-the-month paycheck.

Harry