Re: [Cooker] Saving Mandrake - a Users Perspective

[Jason]

And so can the general public after "the cooling off period" of say 1 month. Is that so long to wait for a FREE ISO?? I think not. Alternatively, users can pay the fee for the newly created cheaper tier for the club and get the ISO's when released. Sounds very fair to me. This all may be moot very shortly if Mandrake doesn't do SOMETHING.

Cheers

Jason

Jason Straight wrote:

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On Thursday 26 December 2002 08:53 pm, Lea Gris wrote:

Jason Straight wrote:

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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
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