Remember that the binary set is 2 CDs per arch now....can't avoid 2 CDs/set Dave Bristel On Tue, 25 May 1999, Darren O. Benham wrote: > Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 13:48:44 -0700 > From: "Darren O. Benham" <gecko@debian.org> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies > Resent-Date: 25 May 1999 20:50:48 -0000 > Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; > > 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" > > -- > Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. > ========================================================================= > * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * > * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* > * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * > * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * > * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * > ========================================================================= >
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