Nick,
It is kinda like a free sample. Just an introduction to linux. Anyway when
I bought maximum linux and got distros with it. It said free disk included,
right! LOL.
Also I think if a linux ISO was say 10 megs and still free-as it is,
everyone would be down loading it with out a care of paying for it. Well at
least untill they tried it. Its the size factor that makes people try and
source it from places other than the net rather than just down loading it for
free. (well in general anyway)
Also I think that If I was in the library and saw it on the shelf and it was
a distro I wanted to try I would borrow it. But if I was say at the meeting
and could buy it for a few bucks then I would most likely buy it. there. Its
just the convenience of where I am at the time. And of course Joe Blow Mr
Public is more likely to be at a library than our meeting. Well at least
untill he has tried to install it and found out how much there is to learn
about linux.
regards,
Nick E
Nick Rout wrote:
On Wednesday 31 October 2001 22:37, Nick Rout wrote:
> I have to say, what a bunch of tight-asses we have around here. At $5-15
> per disk no distro is expensive to get hold of.
>
> > >>advertising and/or perhaps donations of linux distributions to
> > >>public libraries (such as the Wellington LUG appear to be doing
> > >>at the moment))
> > >
> > >What a bizarre thing to do... It'd be a long shot that Linux
> > >would be used if donated to a library. Libraries are part of
> > >councils, and councils by nature are slow moving, bureaucratic
> > >
> > >>beasts with ingrained culture.
> >
> > Chris, not for libraries to use on their own systems, but to put
> > on their shelves for borrowers to take home, install, and return
> > the disks by the due date.
> >
> > This would require a purely free distro (no proprietary pkgs).
> >
> > If I could pick up the latest disks from the local library,
> > install them overnight, and bring them back for the next
> > borrower, I would have switched to linux much sooner than I did.
> >
> > This is especially true for people who don't have the bandwidth
> > to download the ISOs.
> >
> > My $0.02
> >
> > Yuri
> >
> >
> >
> >
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