On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 17:41, Matthew D. Pitts wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:41, Eric Fernandez wrote: > > > I agree it is a strange move to desynchronise "main" or Mandrake/RPMS > > > with the 3CD download edition. It would be better to remove some > > > > It's been "desynchronised" for a while. The download edition hasn't > > contained everything from main for quite a long time, IIRC. > > -- > Not all that strange, actually. Mandrake is trying to make money, so they > have to provide some kind of incentive for people to buy the CD sets and > PowerPacks. If the downlaod edition was exactly the same as what you bought > in the store, would you buy it, or download it? I know which I would do.
The 3-CD bought edition has exactly the same free software as the 3-CD free edition. The only added stuff is non-free stuff (Nvidia drivers etc); there's still some of main left out. It's not a commercial decision, it's a space decision (you can't get all of main on 3 CDs). -- adamw
