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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