Wild and crazy times for the development tree

[Patrick Barnes]

On Monday 20 March 2006 23:39, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris at mharris.ca> wrote:
> David Nielsen wrote:
> > tir, 21 03 2006 kl. 00:00 -0500, skrev Mike A. Harris:
> >>I told him perhaps he should just purchase Fedora Core on CD instead,
> >>and indicated there were many places online which you could order CDs.
> >>He said it would be about $10, which again is like 5% of his monthly
> >>income.  And that's a twice a year cost.  He said that buying Fedora
> >>CDs locally was more expensive for "free software" than buying bootleg
> >>copies of Windows XP down the street for $2-5 a pop.
> >
> > Please note that in the spirit of the community and all that, a lot of
> > us "wealthy" westerners do spend a considerable amount of money shipping
> > totally free copies of Fedora around the world. If he or anyone wants a
> > copy but cannot download it, #fedora on irc.freenode.net is a good place
> > to find friendly people to help and every Linux forum I've ever been to
> > has had a sticky thread offering free copies of Linux mailed anywhere in
> > the world.
> >
> > Getting Linux is not a problem if you utilise the community. It's one of
> > the reasons Linux is such a great thing to be part of.
>
> That's a wonderful idea!  I never even thought of that.  The cost of one
> of us Westerners shipping a CD/DVD anywhere in the world is probably
> about the same cost or close to it of someone buying it online give or
> take a few bucks, but the bigger difference is that to me or you it is
> the price of a few cups of coffee, whereas it's like making a car or
> house payment to people in some parts of the world.
>
> <brainstorming>
> Perhaps a http://www.fedora-for-free.org or
> http://www.fedora-philanthropy.org could be set up, in which people in
> various parts of the world who can't afford to buy CD/DVDs or to easily
> download them to go to get them sent to them for free, and other people
> such as ourselves could contribute a few bucks each release to fund the
> distribution.
> </brainstorming>
>
> Just an idea.
>

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