On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:35:35AM -0800, briand@zipcon.net wrote: > > Debian fans, > > I have the following modest proposal : > > Debian should start charging for high-speed apt-get/dselect/whatever > downloads from it's sites. 56k is free, anything faster you pay for. > Then we can pay people to work on the not fun stuff that needs doing. Hm. I thought that most of the debian servers ran on donated hardware / bandwidth anyway. If I am correct, then I'm not sure that it's right to charge for it... > And people who download ISO's to sell should be paying a LOT. I'm not sure about this one. The ISO's that I have spotted for sale (in the UK) are quite cheap: About £5 - £20 for the full set, where the more expensive ones include printed documentation. I think that if anybody sold ISO's for profit (i.e. charged more than a reasonable cost price for download, cd, burning, packaging etc), then they would be in breach of the license. But I'm no legal expert, so don't take my word for it. > And this is not a troll. > > Debian is worth it, although there has been a lot of grumbling about > it lately (some of it deserved). I personally would pay (more). > > I would like to see more effort directed at the "not fun" stuff in > development, like error handling, documentation, testing, correctness > of packaging. People working in their spare time don't like to do > these sorts of tasks and I don't blame them. Allegedly, the boot-floppies team could do with some help... Best of all (at least for non-maintainers ?) would probably be to report bugs. And make sure that the bugs include patches. Such high-quality bug reports should make the maintainer's job easier. > I honestly think that more money could make Debian an even better > distribution. > > Brian -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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