-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 December 2002 01:43 am, SI Reasoning wrote: > This would be a mistake. The best thing about having the iso out before > the boxed set is that you have all of these people testing and reporting > problems back to get fixed. By the time the boxed set is available, many > bugs have been squished and the paying user gets a very fine distro. It > is really as if the final is really a final release candidate and one > gets a whole lot more eyes to help clean everything up before the boxed > set is available. I think that is a huge benefit.
That's funny - I decided against buying Mandrake CD's when I saw that what was offered on the shelf at Wal-Mart was a release candidate snapshot from cooker. Why pay $50 for what was older than what I could download? I'd rather just give the $ straight to mdk to have access to the iso's. I really don't think the box set gains anything by having the iso's out early. > I believe Mandrake's best shot is capturing market share by getting as > many people to use their software as possible. Here is a simple plan: > > Create a demo cd ala Knoppix and try and bundle with everything you can > (new computer, etc). I don't agree with neutreware. If you offer a free software that is inferior in any way to the original then how are you advertising for the product? What you are doing is tainting the market by providing a falsely negative image of your product. - -- Jason Straight ICQ: 1796276 PGP: http://www.jeetkunedomaster.net/~jason/pubkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPgxBmRFHZPcobeHxAQIjQAP/Q77MU8D4l6XrRkx0//KvBNi5IILk1anz VSDOTpW4+Rp+WqsRIOiYt+Lh7/uRvawAyW2xlQTeeJw4ASOwJLa/D6V0o5IXNaoi I2LcOGWLHoiy/4VVjih+gf73v2JaY3bhac/F2mn8xlXxvtlmvagtw67YIz+mireI HvDZK7MMzY4= =AQ4O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
