From: peterd@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com (Peter Desnoyers) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Alpha Linux/GNU/X && Windows/NT SDK/DDK Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 12:59:42 GMT
Richard.Walker@f960.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Richard Walker) writes:
M writes:
> M> Where exactly is his value added -- something which would
> M> philosophically give him the right to make a profit on this
> M> venture?
>You ask where is the value added, let me explain it simply:
> Take CD ROM out of mailer
> Place in drive
> Run install
>That's value. That is *VAST* *HORDES* of value to anyone who does
>not have ftp access. That is *VAST* value to anyone whose best
>ftp link has a 1200 bps modem connection between them and the net.
Hell, I'm considering purchasing Linux on CD-ROM or floppy, even
though I have a 9600 bps modem. It just wouldn't be worth the time and
risk of munged files unless I was seriously broke or there was no
other way. It would be a lot different if my PC was directly connected
to the Ethernet at work, but that's not the case...
Besides, now that commercial distributions of Linux are available,
what makes M. think he has the right to use >my< tax dollars to ship
tens of megabytes around on the net, when he could go and pay for
it himself, and save net bandwidth for important things like this
thread :-)
Peter Desnoyers
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