From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 18 16:38:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA13671 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu (joelh@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA13666 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) id TAA16808; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:37:48 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:37:48 -0400 Message-Id: <199704182337.TAA16808@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: scrappy@hub.org CC: jkh@time.cdrom.com, mallison@konnections.com, chat@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from The Hermit Hacker on Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:08:00 -0300 (ADT)) Subject: Re: Commercial, Non-Hacker CD Distribution - A thought From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > What I'm more suggesting (and with all the talk of 'Commercial >Projects' going on in the lists, this may be in the works...) is a >CD that I could purchase from Walnut Creek, put into a cdrom at the >office and install instead of Windows95 for 'that new guys machine' >which, altho *not* Windows, would have a comfortable feel to it...and >a pretty consistent one regardless of how many different ppl did the >install process. One of my favourite aspects of Walnut Creek is the assurance that I could always get source to the programs. Is this no longer true? -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped