Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> 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).
>
It would be great if this could be farmed out to CheapBytes or some
other distributor if Mandrake couldn't take this on.
