Myles Green wrote: > > David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am I the only one who thinks that this business model of shipping > > distros via > > mail is getting rather outdated? > > nope.
Double nope. And waiting until just before the next distribution comes out, to get a copy locally of the outgoing version kinda stinks. <SNIP> > > I'm thinking of a payment method sorta along the lines of Mandrake's > > donations page... but this time nonoptional and with a charge per > > gigabyte of > > data downloaded from suse's ftp servers or something.... buy an ftp > > account > > and transfer quota instead of paying for a nice box. > > works if you have a credit card - I don't use them myself as the intrest > rate is absurd. It's paying more to have a company ship me something at bulk rates and charge me 2 times as much as it would cost me to ship it myself that burns me off. Myles, if you pay 'em at the end of the month they don't charge interest. ;) -- Linux SxS [http://hal.humberc.on.ca/~mrcn0031/sxs/] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
