I'd pay a subscription fee for a service that backported certain
"interesting" packages from cooker to the release version if it meant I
could see them in say, maybe a month of release time. Why pay money?
To encourage speedy releases, and to benifit from the integration that
Mandrake does well with all of the other software packages installed on
the system. Does Mandrake offer a service like this?
Just trying to keep pace with Open Software...
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
>> Yes, it's a lot of work, but it gives the impression that you don't
>> support your product in the way a consumer understands support. It's
>> also an argument for not having so many point releases and further
>> illustrates that Linux is really still in development. None of this is
>> good from an advocacy viewpoint, but it is the way "business is done".
>
>
> I have several arguments to oppose to that:
>
> - we are not in the usual business, a "consumer" is to be understood
> differently, because some of them did not pay us any direct money for
> using our products (the downloads) so we feel less stressed to fit their
> direct needs (nvidia and aureal drivers are another good example of what
> "consumers" deadly want) ; also, the price of our product is very very
> low compared to the products that get this support ; for example
> Microsoft don't provide free (in the sense of free of price) updates for
> anything (except very strategis things like Internet Explorer where
> their aim is to kill the opponents not to make a normal living from the
> product)
>
> - supporting our product can be understood differently: whenever you
> bought or donwloaded any version, you are free to download a more recent
> version to have the updates; in that sense, we do support our products
> because anyone can benefit from the latest stuff at no cost
>
> - in our domain, the importance of keeping in touch with latest stuff is
> very very important, so the balance between putting resource in that and
> in the rest is different
>
>
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