Re: Software Distribution DVD from blastwave.org
From: Dennis Clarke (dclarke_at_blastwave.org)
Date: 06/15/04
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:12:11 -0400
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Jim Balson wrote:
>
> Dennis, I just sent some $$$$ via paypal. Thanks for the effort. And
> keep using paypal, I've never had a problem with it, mostly as a buyer, and a
> sometimes seller.
Well, it is working fine for me and the logo at the bottom of the main
paypal website says "Powered by Sun" so it has to work!
> And don't bother sending the DVD. I can download what I need.
Hey, thanks for the support. Seriously. The site is growing like
wildfire and the stats from ibiblio.org are climbing up there :
http://www.blastwave.org/stats/ibiblio/index.html
I just finished the process of getting all of the DVDs labeled, stuffed
into padded envelops and nifty little address labels done. A labour of
love to be sure. Joerg Schilling has done a really great job with the
Pioneer DVD burner and I was able to create the 3Gb DVD's in fairly short
order. When you think about it, 3Gb is about 5 CD's so I figure I'm not
too far out to lunch asking for $20 for the DVD. Truth is I am shipping
some freebies out to people in Sun and other types that have stood beside
me with the blastwave.org process. Guys like Rich Teer, Bruce Riddle and
others.
I hope that the next DVD ( in 15 days or so ) is more popular and that I
can eventually afford to get 4-color silk screen DVD media created. I
also hope to offer a subscription service such that I can ship out the
DVD's every month for a year to whom-ever signs up with a $200 donation.
That seems reasonable I think, 12x20=$240 so therefore a one year
subscription at $200 is an okay price. That makes sense for people that
want a DVD with the entire Sparc and x86 tree of both stable and unstable
packages delivered every month. It may make sense for people working on
servers and systems way behind a firewall and they can't get access to the
internet for a server build process. Either that or they couldn't be
bothered to watch a T1 of bandwidth get saturated for five hours or more.
Just some thoughts.
Stay tuned for T-shirts and coffee cups next :) Alan Coopersmith
suggested it so I'll look into it.
Dennis Clarke
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