On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 01:27, Anne Wilson wrote:
...
> As for the idea of making early downloads available to club members, it would 
> only work if club members don't pass on copies until the boxed sets are 
> available.  It could work, though, if club members use that time to get to 
> know the distro before gloating over it publicly :-)
> 
> Anne

Don't know about you, but my word-of-mouth / CD-burning circle doesn't
represent more than three or four copies per release. I doubt that's a
serious issue.

I agree that the full ISO downloads should be member only until the box
sets are in stores though. I actually seriously dislike this policy, but
feel it's necessary for financial reasons. Wrinkles that culd make it
more palatable:

rsync downloads open to all.

A Knoppix-style trial version open to all.

-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...


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