On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 08:22, Jack Coates wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 01:27, Anne Wilson wrote: > ... > > As for the idea of making early downloads available to club members, it would > > only work if club members don't pass on copies until the boxed sets are > > available. It could work, though, if club members use that time to get to > > know the distro before gloating over it publicly :-) > > > > Anne > > Don't know about you, but my word-of-mouth / CD-burning circle doesn't > represent more than three or four copies per release. I doubt that's a > serious issue. > > I agree that the full ISO downloads should be member only until the box > sets are in stores though. I actually seriously dislike this policy, but > feel it's necessary for financial reasons. Wrinkles that culd make it > more palatable: > > rsync downloads open to all. > > A Knoppix-style trial version open to all.
Jack the more I think about this last one the more I like what I'm hearing..... A single disk download does dhcp test out MDK without installing. hmmmmmm.
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