Hello Jason Straight,
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:51:07 -0500 GMT your local time,
which was Wednesday, November 01, 2000, 3:51:07 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Jason Straight wrote:
> I realize what's done is done, but to carry this out in a meaningful way, can
> something be done so there isn't confustion between wal-marts Mandrake
> version and what's at the ftp site?
> Like put the version as "Linux Mandrake 7.3 complete"
> and right under it put:
> Also available "Mandrake 7.2 Professional, and Mandrake 7.2 download
> release", so there's at least some hint as to the fact that there's a
> difference in them?
The problem seems to me that sales politics are involved and obviously
money so by marketing products which arent final 'visibly' it
means their sales drop dead and that means complaints to mandrake....
Means this whole discussion is useless except as an indication to
Mandrake that it could be done better next time but its extreemly
unlikely anyone will admit it...
Anyway, I can understand the current sitution, and lets hope the next
time someone kicks the marketing guys before they screw up(g)
Essentially any buyer of the non final product may be a lost future
user if the product frustrates him...
And release candidates are betas, doesnt matter how one camouflages
them, they arent the final version or one made for a specific
customer.
Only thing which differentiates release candidates is that they may
have various options activated / deactivated which on testing generate
the real release..
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Best regards,
tracer
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