-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jason Straight wrote:
Personnaly I don't care of the box.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1On 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.
I don't care the newbe (not needed and redondant manual)
I don't care shiny stickers
But I love single DVD whole contained Mandrake
I love reliable, few bug and up to date distro
I love using a free operating system and softwares.
So I don't like the idea of having to wait for the shiny box and manual to get printed, boxed and distributed.
Of course I agree to pay a mandrakeclub member account to download ISOs or having to pay to recieve pre burned DVD or ISO.
Thus I loved buying mdk 8.2 DVD edition (just a set of 8CD and 1DVD, no box, no printed manual). All the this wrapped with a bubble plastic. A shame I had to wait 6 weeks to get this at home. A shame I had to wait 3 month to get my missing CD from mdk 7.0 after sending the form in the box.
Maybe Mandrake could let download older versions of their distro for free. (like mdk8.2) for example and charge mandrakeclub subscriptions for current.
best regards,
- -- L�a Gris - http://www.noiraude.net/
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