Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 17:02:45 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> Cc: md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM image Message-ID: <16720.874627365@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:48:20 %2B0200." <199709182348.BAA07130@bitbox.follo.net>
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> Eivind, who thought that WC wouldn't want people to be able to burn > their own CDs that easily. This is a common misconception. Walnut Creek CDROM actually encourages people to burn their own FreeBSD CDs and distribute them into areas where WC's own CD product isn't making it as effectively as it could or should. As far as Walnut Creek CDROM is concerned, anything which increases the name recognition and installed base of FreeBSD is a good thing and to be encouraged - they know that they can't get FreeBSD into every possible niche market by themselves and they've even tried to get people in China to pirate the FreeBSD CD in hopes that it would spread all over the country like wildfire or something, but no such luck so far. ;-) With the upcoming shift to a 4 CD set, there will also be a lot more market differentiation between those folks who just want to produce a bare minimum installation CD and us, who are producing something more akin to an installation CD + archival resource which contains ports distfiles, the CVS repository, complete and unpacked source & binary trees, etc. If you look at the sheer volume of bits involved, they're really almost completely different products. Jordan
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