Vadim Plessky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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?
Yes.
This would be probably something like a fee to select your favorites apps
and receive them either by snailmail on cdrom's or by the net for latest
stable release.
They would of course be fully tested (but this require some more resources
here).
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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
