-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 December 2002 05:54 pm, David Walser wrote: > ISO availability when the product is finalized pays > back all the people who gave their time to beta test. > Take that away you'll lose the beta testers, and the > quality of the product will decline. There's no easy > solution. > > It *would* be nice if someone would answer my question > about educational institutions and LUGs joining the > club though...
I dunno - personally I wouldn't care if the iso's required payment. It's not that hard for those of us who maintain cooker mirrors locally to make cd's with MakeCD. It might be a good way to keep get some money from non cooker contributors. On the other hand the freeness of mdk no doubt has contributed to it's advertising by putting it out where more people can see/use it. But what's more important? Getting more people to leech or get some money to continue to offer the product? I say charge for iso's. I would definately hold the ISO's for a while after release. Most people I know have a virtual fire under their ass when a new version comes out - they are looking for the fastest way to get the new candy, if the iso's are out first they get them and skip the box. If the boxes were first no one would want to wait for the iso's to be available. - -- Jason Straight ICQ: 1796276 PGP: http://www.jeetkunedomaster.net/~jason/pubkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPguQCBFHZPcobeHxAQK4vgP9FECQCD+oTsIjJGbpdPdkjrsKi3Uk34F9 EKLVFEVfjFhH6ei/1jo3SGKih7lFekaAlvBaVRjmtjrvjce2zfwH2jmxlEN+2Htt C+CiaEevxP43gM3zFXVaFDFtCltUVmuM6zYUeoj8CqJMxj42OSk/7toXna2EN9I4 my89Gw3qkbY= =ohXb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
