On Mar 12, Saugata Chakrabarti wrote: > Dear Richard, > Debian is not underrepresented in India, > > We use to download ISO or raw format, write CDs and distribute within > our LUG members. Most of the time, we just pay only the cost of blank CD > and get our favorite Linux distributions in hand. > > I am shocked and astonished in your comment :-( > What makes you feel like that .. ???? > > Hope, in future you will think twice before comment anything in public > ;-)
I think Richard's point is that there is a lack of vendors for people who don't have contact with a LUG and/or don't have the bandwidth for dowloading ISOs. While a number of vendors ship to India, it would be good to have a few more vendors in India so people could get CDs more quickly and inexpensively. Being a vendor isn't all that hard - you need the ISOs, a CD burner, good access to blank media, envelopes, and stamps, and a spreadsheet to keep track of the money for the taxman to get his cut. Nobody's going to get rich selling Debian CDs, but it's a nice supplemental income for relatively little work. (Having said that, I suspect Debian could do better in India if our website was available in Hindi and other Indian languages. I realize a lot of the tech community there speaks English, but that's true in a lot of other countries where we've translated stuff too.) Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]