On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 09:55 PM, Chris Devers wrote: > On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 08:08 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: > >> The real solution, it seems to me, is a fink CD. > > Part of me really likes that idea, and has liked it for a while now. > > Part of me thinks it's way more time, effort & cash than we probably > want > to be dealing with here. Who's going to print the discs? How much does > that cost these days? How is distribution going to happen, exactly? > > Would it make sense to partner/piggy-back with someone already doing > this? > Maybe something could be packaged as a throw-in disc for Yellow Dog > Linux. > The nice thing there is that many (most, all?) of the packages would > *not* > need to be duplicated for both systems -- there would just be an extra > bundle to install Fink onto an OSX system (or YDL too??) along side the > rest of the Linux stuff on there. > > I could see this kind of Linux/OSX partnership leading to a bunch of > pointless political arguments, but I could also see it being hugely > beneficial for both sides here: Mac users would be able to give > full-blown > Linux a try, and Linux users could bring more of their toolkit to OSX. > Both sides have much to gain & little or nothing to lose. I like it. > > Does this sound feasible/appealing/worth pursuing?
This is possible, but I think YDL would be a bad choice. Maybe we could work to partner up with OpenOSX itself, as repulsive as that may sound. They already have a business model worked out, and are obviously making money, or they wouldn't still be there. They do have some things they have written on their own, so maybe it would be a good thing. Ideas: 1) They do marketing, packaging (Deciding on combos), selling, etc. 2) We port the software and make stuff available on SourceForge. 3) We stay in contact with them and get publicity too, but we don't have to worry about the money (It's an open-source project after all) 4) They put references to us in their CDs We all turn out happy, however, we would need to communicate with them first, but before that we need to decide a plan of action among ourselves. Kyle Moffett _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
