RE: BitTorrent Speeds (Was :Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now )

2003-04-04 Thread Ward William E DLDN
inal Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: 4/3/03 6:44 PM Subject: RE: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now ) On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Ward William E DLDN wrote: > Oh, one last addendum, before I send this: To all the folks who >

RE: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now )

2003-04-03 Thread Cliff Wells
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 15:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Ward William E DLDN wrote: > > > Oh, one last addendum, before I send this: To all the folks who > > got it off BitTorrent, how about going BACK to BitTorrent and letting > > OTHER folks who couldn't finish get it? I'd l

RE: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now )

2003-04-03 Thread fluke
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Ward William E DLDN wrote: [SNIP] You seem to have two major points: 1) RHN ISO downloads add no additional charge to RHN subscribers which makes it a non-profit distribution. The fact that access to the ISOs via RHN required a payment should not count as commerical since

RE: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now )

2003-04-03 Thread Cliff Wells
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 11:19, Ward William E DLDN wrote: > Oh, one last addendum, before I send this: To all the folks who > got it off BitTorrent, how about going BACK to BitTorrent and letting > OTHER folks who couldn't finish get it? I'd like to install this > weekend (two machines now, one mo

RE: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now )

2003-04-03 Thread Ward William E DLDN
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:22 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right > now ) > > > On Thu,

RE: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now )

2003-04-03 Thread Ward William E DLDN
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:12 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right > now ) > > > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003

RE: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now)

2003-04-02 Thread fluke
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Ward William E DLDN wrote: > I want to correct at least one egregious error in this > list of correcting errors; it's a big one, though. > > > Again, bootleg would be the wrong term but if you mean that > > you can not > > violate the license then your wrong--all you need to

RE: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now)

2003-04-02 Thread Ward William E DLDN
I want to correct at least one egregious error in this list of correcting errors; it's a big one, though. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Stop the dis

Re: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now)

2003-04-02 Thread Cliff Wells
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 10:16, T. Ribbrock wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:15:59AM -0800, Cliff Wells wrote: > [...] > > Yes, wxPython! ;-) But then they'd get into the same quandry they've > > gotten into with Python. They insist on naming it 'python' and then > > resting a bunch of dependenci

Re: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now)

2003-04-02 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:15:59AM -0800, Cliff Wells wrote: [...] > Yes, wxPython! ;-) But then they'd get into the same quandry they've > gotten into with Python. They insist on naming it 'python' and then > resting a bunch of dependencies on top of the version number, which > makes it difficul

Re: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now)

2003-04-02 Thread Cliff Wells
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 07:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems like the biggest blocker to offically promoting use of BitTorrent > over using curl (http) or ftp mirrors is providing the BitTorrent client. > RH seems to be over 70% of the way towards being able to support > distributing the Bit

Re: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now)

2003-04-02 Thread fluke
On 2 Apr 2003, Jeff Bearer wrote: > > - "How does Red Hat feel about programs like BitTorrent as a primary > > method of distribution?" > > Was my post really that hard to understand? It seemed pretty clear to > me but it should, I wrote it. Let me try to explain. > > Pretend I posted this ne

Re: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now)

2003-04-02 Thread fluke
On 2 Apr 2003, Jeff Bearer wrote: > > - "How does Red Hat feel about programs like BitTorrent as a primary > > method of distribution?" > > > > If your willing to use BitTorrent to avoid paying $60 then you would > > probably also be willing to wait a week to avoid paying $60. Even if > > Bit

Re: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now)

2003-04-02 Thread Jeff Bearer
> - "How does Red Hat feel about programs like BitTorrent as a primary > method of distribution?" > > If your willing to use BitTorrent to avoid paying $60 then you would > probably also be willing to wait a week to avoid paying $60. Even if > BitTorrent became the most popular (or "primary")

Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now)

2003-04-02 Thread fluke
This thread is really upsetting me. I will try to go through each of the comments that I feel need to be commented on below. My answers may not be complettely correct by I believe them to be more on track than some of the discussion already in the thread. I'm open to any additional comment