On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 07:25, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > James Sparenberg schrieb am Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:12:28 -0700: > > > One thing MDK has never been good > > at is tooting their own horn. I'm tired of seeing red hats and > > Lethargic Lizards at Linux world etc. We need more Top Hats *grin*. > > Although I agree to this in full I have to point out that we don't live > in an ideal world. Sorry about that. > > Tooting your horn involves money upfront. If you want to see how > Mandrake is able to toot their horn have a look at pictures of LinuxTag > 2000 in Germany (one of the biggest European Linux events): > > http://www.wolf-b.de/linuxtag/linuxtag.html > > That was during the time when there was money to throw around. Now > Mandrake is at a very tight budget, for once to make it out of Chaper 11 > at the end of this year. > > Being presented at exhibitions, distributing boxes overseas (USA, > Canada, Australia) is a costly venture which is right now just not > paying back. > > This may change, of course (hopefully). > > wobo, during one of his rare moments of reality awareness > Here's the thing, as I see it,,, since the three disks set is GPL, really there is only a couple of things needed, 1. some one to press the CDs, print the boxes and some instructions (ala cheepbytes) a logistics/distribution service, and the contacts able to make the sale to to the big three, then some one else to handle "all the other" retail in the USA.
well that's about all I will say about this in an open forum...... L8R
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