-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 December 2002 08:53 pm, Lea Gris wrote: > Jason Straight wrote: > > -----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. > > Personnaly I don't care of the box. > 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.
Ok - so mandrake members can download iso's then. - -- Jason Straight ICQ: 1796276 PGP: http://www.jeetkunedomaster.net/~jason/pubkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPgu3PRFHZPcobeHxAQJroAP/WuI2QnNIcf9b4BVAVDkNlQkbxN+qbaIX XHzzhRqdxeXDSJs2oNxA2qqJWTB6dihCsKpmQXhbQysCaUNbq0AYpHiLnk+GVhsQ 1bJ/xNVGahX2Ti0QYxMB2ep/DgmzjBPwOcMjHZknz8XaYZkNmpOAPYKzI+//9iHQ sDSRPK45VJI= =1XB4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
