From: jhelberg@nl.oracle.com (Joost Helberg) Subject: Re: Who will handle publicity for Linux 1.0? Date: 1 Oct 1992 13:43:00 GMT
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On behalf of the UNIX USERS GROUP of the Dutch Hobby Computer Club:
S_WIEZORKE@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Hans B. Wiezorke) writes:
:
: another $0.02 on this thread... :-)
:
: In article <1992Sep30.190556.851@debet.nhh.no> si0_tb90020@debet.nhh.no writes:
: > Still 100$ is a lot of money to charge for advertizing and media.
:
: That depends on what you get for it. Disks cost money, postage & packaging
: do the same, and if you have to make a living from distibuting PD/freeware/
: shareware, you just have to charge some money. I think 2-3 dollars/disk is
: a fair price.
We let people pay less than $1 per disk. People get the latest release, e.g.
we had a UNIX GROUP day last saturday, people got 0.97pl6.
We compile a lot our selves, add X, make a bootable root floppy etc.
The base distribution is 10 floppies (3.5"), an extra 10 for X, 10 for TeX and
10 for Emacs. Still growing of course.
: Another great way to get LINUX to the people (who don't have net access)
: would be a user club, where you can copy for free, but as long as we don't
: have such a club, it's a good thing to have distributors carry LINUX.
: (as long as they keep their distribution up to date [the biggest problem
: by now])
That is right, I dont understand why known distributors are several weeks behind.
We never have a problem keeping up with Linus and friends? Never more than 4 or 5
days time-lag.
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