Arg, forgot the mailing list :)

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 14:55, Chris Deigan wrote:
> Sorry to everyone -
> I meant in the way which if every distro gave $5 off SLUG membership
> regardless of who makes the profit or who makes the CDs.
> 
> If somebody buys a $35 redhat book set, or one of those minibooks from a
> newsagent, how can slug cover its cost of handing out $5 :D
> 
> Hope that clears that up
> 
> On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 11:52, Peter Hardy wrote:
> > Good morning!
> > 
> > Did I mention that I really, *really* detest top-posting? :-)
> > 
> > On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 21:12:45 +1100 Jon Biddell wrote:
> > > So why offer the discount at all for one distro ???
> > 
> > Basically because that's the only one anybody's bothered to brand with a
> > SLUG logo and distribute.  The last time the committee spoke about it,
> > we were all for packaging other distributions in a similar way.  Anybody
> > setting out to do so will get at least as much support from SLUG as
> > Bruce did (which admittedly wasn't a great deal - but that's because
> > he was so damn good at doing it on his own).
> > 
> > So yeah.  Now we've done it once, it should be much easier to do it
> > again.  If you want to see $favourite_distro in the shops as well, talk
> > to Bruce, and mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> > There are one or two fairly minor reasons why I personally would
> > choose Debian for something like this, but that's drifting off-topic,
> > and dangerously close to yet another distro flamewar.
> > 
> > > =>Thats like saying, by burning your own cd-set you've saved $5 
> > > =>off slug membership.
> > 
> > Not at all.  Putting these CDs in bookshops is a great way to get Linux
> > out to people who might not see it otherwise.  The membership discount
> > lets them know about SLUG, and what we can offer.  It also,
> > incidentally, hopefully gets us more members. :-)
> > 
> > Is anybody reading this after buying the CD?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Pete
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Chris Deigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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