On Wednesday 22 January 2003 16:06, Buchan Milne wrote: > Warly wrote: > > I mean that switching to 650 MB ISO removed 150MB of packages, and > > that 9.1 is likely to have nearly 200 packages less than 9.0. > > Is there any reason why the commercial apps *have* to go on the free > space in the GPL CDs? > > Is there any reason why a 4th commercial-only CD is a bad idea? As far > as I can see, having a 4th CD could have some advantages: > > 1)Users can buy just the 4th CD (at about half a standard pack?). If all > the proprietary drivers are on the 4th CD, any time (winmodem, NVidia, > Radeon > 7xxx, speedtouch) a device is found that needs proprietary > drivers, this DC could be advertised. > 2)The first 3 CDs of GPL and Standard could be identical. Since it would > be advantageous to have the hdlists for the commercial software (see > (1)) on the 1st CD, and the 3rd CD would be identical, the only > difference between Standard and GPL would be the 4th commercial CD. > > I think this would have some advantages in a number of ways, and don't > see why commercial software should restrict the size of the other CDs, > when instead it could be used to push up sales (even if only of the > commercial software). > > Of course, if this were to happen, a nice button in MCC would be cool, > something like 'Add 4th (commercial) CD software source'. > > Buchan
100% ACK on that. -- Regards Steffen ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
