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Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies



On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 02:49:29PM -0500, renfro@tntech.edu wrote:
> On a related note, is my count off, or do we really only *need* to give
> out 2 CDs for most architectures? Granted, having source and contrib CDs
> on hand is nice and/or politically correct, but are they really necessary
> as freebies? If we don't need them, then we can quite easily double the
> number of potential installations without incurring any extra costs to us
> or to the CD vendor. Folks that really wanted either could then go to LC
> or Cheapbytes and pick up the remaining disks at a discount, or at full
> price, or whatever.
> 
> Might even be some way to work this in with the idea of donations, but
> that's another matter entirely. Comments?
Definatly don't need contrib.  Having a/the source CD was nice, being able
to say "Here's everything you need to make a Linux system... and if there's
something you don't like, here's all the source to it"

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