On 5/3/06, Stephen Krenzel <sgk284@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just a quick thought, feel free to knock it down if you so desire. What about a "pass along" kind of setup. Where receivers of free media can opt in to pass the media along when they are done installing it.
The value of a working rescue environment on media that you can lay your hands on imeediately in times of severe system problems is invaluable. I would never ever recommend someone purposely giving away the only copy of the media in their possession which has the rescue environment. And while this sort of "sloppy seconds" distribution of a single piece of installation media may make sense in a closely associated community of people who know each other, Additionally I would definitely fear for the quality of passed-along media after a small finite number of pass-alongs. Anyone who uses netflix service knows exactly what I'm talking about. And I think you grossly underestimate how difficult it will be to deal with the quality issues... let alone deal with tracking how much of the media which falls off the map competely and isn't passed on. Without a central organization through which media returns and then gets sent back out from.. there is zero quality control or tracking of the media in circulation. I do not think its in fedora's best interest to encourage the re-distribution of media over and over again that does not make a serious effort at media defect tracking. Even if you can have a centralized system for tracking.. you still leave users in the lurk by encouraging them to give up the rescue environment available on the installation media. I care far more about making sure people have equitable access to recovery tools than i do about the sheer number of people who have fedora installed. The people who need free media are also going to be the people who are going to be in a huge panic if they have a system problem later and need the rescue environment to sort it out. -jef -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
