Johnny Hughes wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 13:34 -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
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>>What's the point? I checked out linux cd mall. They charge $12.50 for
>>the CD set (or DVD) and CentOS makes ONE DOLLAR. Unless you envision
>>tens of thousands of people buying CDs, it hardly seems like a
>>worthwhile endeavor unless you're the CD distributor.
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>You may not understand the VOLUME of centos right now. We serve about
>16 TB per month of data from just the internal centos servers. That is
>just traffic for supplying updates to other public mirrors, Bittorrent
>ISO seeds and up2date/yum run against our mirrors. That does not in any
>way measure traffic of updates run against the 41 public mirrors.
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>In the last 2 months there have been 30527 CD SETS or full DVDs
>downloaded from the CentOS BitTorrents totaling 62.96TiB. That does not
>in any way measure the ISOs downloaded from the 41 public mirrors.
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>CentOS is very high volume right now ... and it is getting bigger
>everyday. It takes money and resources to distribute at this level. We
>need more of both.
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Ah, I didn't realise that things had taken off to that degree. Again,
the point of my original post was that I thought the people who were
doing all the heavy lifting ought to make more than 8-10%. But given
the numbers above, perhaps that's still going to be a fair amount of
$$$. I'm just tickled the distro exists and I've given DVDs to a few
people who have later decided to replace production Redhat servers with
CentOS. I'll just have to encourage more of them to use the DONATE
button on the website. I guess I just tune those buttons out over
time. I didn't even notice them until I went hunting for them today.
Cheers and congrats!
