Thursday 21 December 2000 11:58, Guillaume Cottenceau ???????:
| Neal Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > I'd pay a subscription fee for a service that backported certain
| > "interesting" packages from cooker to the release version if it meant I
| > could see them in say, maybe a month of release time. Why pay money?
| > To encourage speedy releases, and to benifit from the integration that
| > Mandrake does well with all of the other software packages installed on
| > the system. Does Mandrake offer a service like this?
|
| This is currently under question here at MandrakeSoft :-).
I hope not for Cooker?
Otherwise, it will be really hard to achieve *stability*....
What I like in Mandrake at a moment, that it runs out-of-the-box.
(just with few small exceptions :-)
Idea of _paid_ service is great, but do you understand that, in this case,
customer will not *ask*, but *require* QUALITY?
And <missing support for something> can result in legal suites, or long and
painful product returns/reimbursements.
/I just can't imagine you put KDE 2.x, Gnome 1.x/2.x or XFree86 in such
package; they all are *developing* versions;
or, you are going to stick to Mandrake kernel + Apache?
by the way, it's not bad. If you can make your warranty on *working on my
equipment* Apache and Sendmail - there is a reason to pay you for this; but,
AFAIK, SendMail have now commercial version, which is supposed to be coverd
under warranty/tech support... And you need a lot of technical support stuff
to cover this. And prompted response time... /
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