This is a very good idea, thank you Ben, we will investigate it
> On 23.12.2014, at 22:01, Ben Bullard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh, I don't think we should sell flash drives or DVD's for 49.99. That's > ridiculous. I can see OMA doing it for a small price to cover cost of > production and a small amount for fund raising. Like $10 or so. The purpose: > > 1. Foremost simply publicity and gaining more users. Enlarge community and > awareness of our community. > 2. Convenience for those who don't want to burn their own. > 3. And a wee bit of fund raising to keep association solvent and viable. > > Simply being on websites like amazon.com and ebay.com will generate publicity > and awareness. > > Also there may be other things to sell on Amazon, eBay, and the like such as > coffee mugs, t-shirts, ect. I'd buy a t-shirt maybe a set of coffee mugs as > well... > > This distro shall always be available for free. That's a must. Isn't that in > our charter? > Thanks, > > Ben > ben79 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > OM-QA Team > On 12/23/2014 02:24 PM, symbianflo wrote: >> >> Il 23/12/2014 20:52, Ben Bullard ha scritto: >>> This is um, interesting, perhaps, disturbing... >>> >>> http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=mandriva&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=49845037345&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=s&hvrand=2771726930291808587&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_764keey9kp_b >>> >>> Bargain: Mandriva Linux 2007 for $650.99 (US dollars). (It's a used book!) >>> Mandriva Linux 2011 8GB flash drive $49.99 >>> >>> Like a bad cold, 2011 won't ever go away... >>> >>> Wish we could sell DVD's and Flash drives for 49.99. Downloads are free!!! >>> -- >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ben >>> ben79 >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> OM-QA Team >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OM-Cooker mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org >> If OMA would sell Flash drives for 49.99 I can assure you that would be >> AGAIN >> a community witch will develop a flash iso for free. :-$ >> >> PS: >> RIP ArviPingus, he was a dear friend a the best example for all communities. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OM-Cooker mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org > > _______________________________________________ > OM-Cooker mailing list > [email protected] > http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org
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