On Monday 20 March 2006 23:39, "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeMedia -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64@xxxxxxxxx http://www.n-man.com/ Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/ --
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