[Debian-uk] DVDs & CDs for Expo2002

[Andrew Mulholland]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:13:53PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 17:40, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 11:42:26AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> 
> Alternatively, we could go for selling just CD1_NONUS, on the basis that
> a desktop install apparently only needs stuff off of CD#1 --- does
> anyone have strong opinions about including CD#2 in a limited set?

I've not downloaded a single full woody cd.
the 37meg xfs netinst cd, and the 120meg "lordsutch.com" netinst cd have
between them suited all my needs so far, so as such I'd imagine the full
CD1 should be enough.
> 
> We could have a small supply of the full set, just for the people that
> turn out to have a really good reason for needing them ("I'm just about
> to get on a plane to darkest Africa, and the school has a solar powered
> 386...") but mostly sell CD#1.
> 

hehe

> What about source?  We need to make sure that we don't violate the GPL,
> after all --- is an offer to supply enough, given that someone might try
> to use that offer in 3 years time, by which time we might have trouble
> fulfilling it.  Any ideas?
> 

Time limited coupon? (expires in 6months time or sommat)

> 
> 
> Well, perhaps we should just go for the minimal 1 CD thing, and come up
> with a scheme for getting the rest to people that are interested.

See my aboe suggestion

> 
> That way we could compile a mailing list, and sell it to the highest
> bidder.  No!  Bad Phil! <slap>


lol.

> 
> What I meant to say was, we could get involved in all the wonders of the
> data protection act --- Hands.com is registered under the act if that
> helps, as I'd imagine is linuxemporium, so we could probably do it
> legally, which is nice.

It always helps if you dont break the law.

> 
Andy