* Andreas Schuldei ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061016 18:19]: > * Jason Spiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061016 03:15]: > > What if we found some way to give away Debian CDs/DVDs to whoever wanted > > them for free through the mail, like Ubuntu does? > > i have tried to find out how much this would cost. > > aparently the posting of CDs/DVDs is the really expensive part. > things like cutting corners by producing CDs on every continent > and distributing them "regionally" seem to be inpractical due to > poor quality of some CD/DVD producing locations. Furthermore > CDs/DVDs were not as shit-cheep as i had expected; i think a CD > was ~20cent (not sure, have my notes not here), DVDs were more.
that was not correct: a CD is 14cent or down to 8cent if you buy numbers (like 100k), while a DVD would be 29cent. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

