Subject: Re: Does anybody have a 5 1/4" 1.2 Mb floppy-only system?
To: None <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
From: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@kurt.tools.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/29/1996 20:00:17
> That's not the point. As far as i'm aware, _none_ of the current
> people/groups distributing NetBSD on CD-ROM are doing anything but
> grabbing what's up for FTP and putting it on the CD-ROM. Changing it
> so that people can't install from those CD-ROMs:
> (1) won't convince them to change what they're doing
> (you think NetBSD is a big-money market?!)
> (2) will keep users from being able to install from those
> CD-ROMs, which, in all likelyhood will cause:
> (3) people to stop buying those CD-ROMS and then the
> sellers to stop selling them.
Hmm. I'm not sure that I buy this. IMHO, people making CDs could very well
be expected to put at least some small amount of work into it, if this makes
things a bit easier for us.
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