Support your Linux distro... please buy your DVD/CD!

[ted leslie]

I agree. For ubuntu for example, you could buy music from their partner as a way to show support.
In case of Mint, they have donations, and they then post your name on the web page as a sponser.
Or, of course, by a t-shirt or a mug, almost every distro has that kind of store.

tl

On Wed, 26 May 2010 00:16:29 -0400
Fabio FZero <fabio.fzero-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Well, most of them don't sell CDs/DVDs anymore. In fact even the music
> industry is moving away from that. The film industry will soon follow
> suit. My point is: donations are fine (and necessary), but buying
> CDs/DVDs is these days of cheap(-ish) broadband is pointless, isn't
> it?
> 
> Some distros have proper business models, be it enterprise versions
> (RHEL... which by the way I think it's ridiculously overrated),
> selling technical support and consulting (SUSE, Mandriva & some
> others) or value-added services (Ubuntu One, Canonical Landscape and
> so on).
> 
> Other distros rely on donations, and I agree that they are an
> important piece of the puzzle, but CDs? Seriously? Who cares for this
> old, non-biodegradable, last-century technology?
> 
> - FZ
> 
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 21:12, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I've noticed that a lot of distro have announced their latest release,
> > ie. Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu, Centos, Mint, Mepis, etc...
> > Please buy DVD/CD!  We can talk about their features until cows come
> > home, but if users don't buy them, then you can bet Bill Gates won't.
> >
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