I can't speak for Mandrake on this one. I spoke with my buddys at NEBS and
they thought about charging more, but it may be in violation of the GPL to
charge much more. There is a general spirit of things in the open source
community and this stays within it. (of course additional donations are
always welcome).
I will point out here that NEBS supplies me with the equiptment and the
bandwidth to make RPM's available. This is just a way to help support that
and see the demand. My job at Mandrake does not include my KDE work and I
compile these off of Mandrake's servers, NEBS has been good to me in that
regard.
-Chris
On Tuesday 16 January 2001 08:38, Larry Marshall wrote:
> > I just spoke with the customer service rep at New England Business
> > Services, LLC.
>
> Chris, why are these guys (or Mandrake for that matter) so shy about
> charging for such a service? It's ridiculous that you are going to
> sell those CDs for $4.00. Is it out of the realm of the Linux
> movement for Mandrake to offer $10-15 upgrade disks, possibly limited
> to those who have registered one of your packages? It would seem a
> great way to increase revenue and a great service for those who don't
> have high-speed connections.
>
> In any case, thanks for making those disks available.
>
> Cheers --- Larry
