How to buy YDL software

[Dan Burcaw]

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 09:50, Christopher Murtagh wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Carsten Milling wrote:
> >I think Pietro raises an interesting point here. I bought the CDs twice
> >for the same reasons as Pietro's, i.e. to support a nice Linux
> >distribution for PPC. However, I payed more than $60 each time. That
> >means the shipping was even more expensive than the actual distribution.
> 
>  I have to agree with this. I also buy as many distros as I can to help
> support TerraSoft. 2.3 was the first distro I haven't bought, and the only
> reason was because money was tight when I asked my boss for it and the
> shipping really adds to the cost (not to mention the fact that our dollar
> is in the crapper, so we get killed in the exchange rate).
> 
>  I think a subscription option would be really great. I don't really need
> to buy physical CDs, especially since I'm mirroring the server, but I
> would like to contribute $$ in a way that I can sell easily to the powers
> that be here. Since other departments pay outrageous fees for service and
> maintenance contracts on their Solaris and Irix boxes, one or two hundred
> $$ should be easy for me to get them to agree to. The only thing I would
> need for this to be an item to pitch to my boss is an official
> 'subscription service' provided by Terra Soft which might include things
> like advanced access to download ISOs (I would even be willing to mirror
> subscription accounts and/or design a system that can make it exportable
> via http), and a friendly newsletter every month or two with some tips,
> updaters, changelogs, etc..
> 
>  Dan what do you think?


We're working on something in this general vein.  We're not ready to
releases details, however.  More later ;-)

-Dan