Ben Goren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of course, this misses the fact that this has been a problem with *all* > jewel cases since time immemorial. I've got a stack of a dozen music > CDs in jewel cases on my desk right now. Some of them are mine; some > mine that I've lent out; some that I'm borrowing. At least a third have > broken jewel cases. Maybe more. > > If you look in your music collection, you'll almost certainly discover > the same thing.
Horse puckey. The jewel cases OpenBSD uses are junk. If you look at the cases in your music collection (unless you are buying pirated stuff) you'll see there are 12 heavy duty prongs holding each CD. They are arranged in a fan with very long slits to provide flexibility. I've never seen them break. The prongs cover 80% of the CD ID. The cases can get cracked and broken, yes, but not the fingers. (If you've got 1/3 broken cases you must be brutal. In my collection, it's less than 2 percent.) The OpenBSD cases have 3 measly little prongs per CD. They secure less than 20% of the hole ID and they were not designed to be adequately flexible. The last OpenBSD CD I got (3.6) had 5 of 9 prongs sheared off and all three CDs were banging around and being scratched by the prong bits. I suspect that the prongs are being broken while the CDs are still in the bulk packaging from the manufacturer. If the box is slammed down with the CDs parallel to the acceleration, you can break all those prongs in one good slam, and T shirts won't help later. Further, I received my CDs from the Computer Shop of Calgary through their Montana outlet. Packaging was a tyvex envelope with one layer of 1/8 inch bubble wrap, with the ends not properly protected. Though the case wasn't cracked this time (it was last time), that's just not enough protection for a $45 product. The software is of the highest quality. You are putting a lot of work into the art and the songs, and everyone is obviously proud of the result. The OpenBSD distro has the best packaging of any I've seen. So it's like opening a long anticipated present and finding it scratched. I pass on my old CDs to other people so they can try OpenBSD. It makes a bad impression when all the CDs fall out when they open the jewel case. Hey, raise the price fifty cents and get a decent case and enough bubble wrap. Maybe even a small cardboard shipping box. Then we could avoid the semiannual aggressive-defensive discussion on this issue. -- KBK
