On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:47:32 -0500 Jason Straight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 10 January 2003 12:41 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > > Who cares about the media, it's trivial in cost to the devices > > required to read the media. > > > > Especially consider that a user buying a boxed set (AFIAK, boxed sets > > were also 700MB) shouldn't be forced to buy a new CD-ROM drive just > > because Mandrakesoft wanted to ship one less CD. > > > > If you have an affected drive, Mandrake 9.0 was a nightmare. I say > > this after having done about 10 intalls on machines which were fine, > > not seeing what all the fuss is about, to discover it really is a > > problem on some machines. > > Man this talk about iso size is petty, it's the price to pay for > progress, deal with it. Should distribute on tapes? 360K floppies? 720K > floppies? 1.44mb floppies? 650MB CD's, 700MB CD's? and in 5 years do you > think they'll be using CD's at all? OK... let's take your non-petty argument farther... what kind of market share will Mdk have if they release 9.1 on DVD only...? That's progress... why not just go for it...? <sigh> We're not talking about media several iterations back; we're talking about the current/recent stuff... 1.44 & 650MB are ubiquitous; 700MB and DVD aren't yet. That's what needs to be dealt with to maintain and grow market share. Pierre
