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emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:


>the gnu software would require a cd-rom-of-the-month club to keep it
>reasonably up to date.  (you could put C news on there too I suppose.)
>given this relatively short half life of gnu releases, it would seem
>to me to be problematic to get volume high enough to cover initial
>mastering costs.

in fact a local company who is in the cd-rom business just asked
me whether they could put sources on cd-rom for me instead of
paying for the tapes (i distribute gnu etc on tape in europe).
since that wouldn't be a commercial service for me it looks like
i could avoid the initial mastering costs. however, nothing is
official yet.

>well, perhaps a cd-rom-of-the-every-other-month club, or gnu updates
>quarterly with other things coming out in the intervening months.

which brings a question to my mind: what the hell should one charge
for a cd-rom with 300MB+ of compressed sources on it when you charge
$210 for a 60MB tape?? also, what format should be used? system V
1K filesystem? UFS? DOS (ugh)? something totally different? i don't
know enough about cd-roms it seems...

another question is if new version will be charged for as initial
mastering (i think so). that would make a monthly or even quarterly
update to expensive, i guess.
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