On Tue Oct 31, 2000 at 10:56:05AM -0500, Jason Straight wrote:
> But when it comes to the products image being jeopardized I hope you guys
> made the right decision. Hopefully there won't be a big stink about the fact
> that the shelf version that people fork out $25 for isn't as good as the
> version they can dl for free. Next time around you might release the full
> code only to find out too many people won't want it because they will think
> they are getting less for $25 than what they could get for nothing.
The Download Edition is basically 7.2 + updates. The updates will be
available via MandrakeUpdate. I fail to see the difference? Sure,
you can download the 7.2 ISO's, but you can also download a small
percentage of the 1.2GB that are the two ISO's by buying 7.2 and using
MandrakeUpdate. This is no difference. The only difference is that
the download edition includes the updates in the ISO.
I (and others, I'm sure) appreciate your common-sense approach to this
issue. Thank you for that. It's much nicer to discuss with someone
who understands how the real world works.
> Anyway - good work on 7.2, the real final version. I love it, as I have all
> Mandrakes from 6.0.
This is good to hear!
> In the future maybe a different versioning system would help alleviate this
> also. 7.00 might be on the shelf at Wal-Mart while 7.01 on ftp. At least
> something on the box so no one can claim they were lied to.
Consider this then... the retail version is 7.2, no question. The
ISO's are the 7.2 Download Edition, or maybe 7.2+updates, but I think
an ISO name of mandrake-7.2-download-edition-cd1.iso is a little
long... =)
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