Re: [Cooker] Sad state of pre-releasing to consumers

[Robert L Martin]

> MICROSOFT DOES NOT PUT KNOWN BETAS ON SALE SO WHY ARE YOU PUNISHING
> THE FOLKS THAT IN PART PAY YOUR SALERIES FOR WANTING TO DO SO???

Do you know the difference between Release Candidates and Beta?????? It
seems not.
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yes i do a Release candidate is a beta that may be stable
(the last RC was not)


> Robert L Martin
> Who thinks Mandrake should burn a special "walmart edition" fix cd and

> send to registered users of that cd.

We could not do that because $25 is too cheap to handle it.
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and not getting that $25.00 next time  from folks that will now ignore
LINUX
is??
In RadioShack items up to $50.00 retail are mass scrapped if a serious
bug is found
and we EAT the repair on greater.
Is your rep worth about $2.00 at the most per for folks that bother to
register?

Robert L Martin
(who is thinking of getting the cheap bytes copy since that will be a
clean copy)