🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991Jun17.233644.1675@ingres.Ingres.COM> daveb@Ingres.COM (Dave Brower) writes:
:If 500 disks cost around $6.00 a disk, maybe it's NOT a bad idea to have
:a GNU "cd of the month".  Say you cover some postage and overheadd and
:charge $10.00 per each; that's still $120.00/yr, less than most 1/2"
:tapes cost.
:
:I'd be HAPPY to pay that per year to get updates regularly without
:ftp/uucp etc. hassle.  Heck, it would probably be worth the profligate
:expenese of $20/month...
:
:(For that, I'd like all the .dvi files for the manuals too)
:
:cheers,
:-dB


I wholeheartedly second this.  Our company is moving towards
distributing our medical databases on CD after years of pumping
out floppies.  From what I can see it is a simple & cheap process.
You don't even need an outrageously large customer base. Fifty or
so willing customers would make it self-supporting.  The biggest
difficulty is finding staff to do the legwork of producing a
suitable tape etc.  I get the impression Gnu staffers are much
happier hacking code instead of admin :-)

G