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By Allan. (207.54.125.138) on
Many people are both impatient and lazy to some degree. Getting the release via FTP is easier than ordering so they may FTP and not get around to ordering even if they intend to. However, if it can be gotten sooner by getting a CD, perhaps they will order.
In any case, shipping the CDs close to a month before the release date should not hurt sales. Perhaps it helps.
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By Nonesuch (163.192.21.41) on http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
I pre-ordered two months ago, my cow-orker sent in his order last week. He received his disks today, no sign of a shipment for me.
How long can I resist the urge to "borrow" his authorized CDs and rip myself a set of ISOs?
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By Anonymous Coward (192.87.30.147) on
However making ISO's available -before- the actual CD's
are printed can NEVER be copyright infringement.
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By LeonYendor (218.214.194.113) on
And the previous post was about how the poster's mate already had his CDs.
How does that make the proposed ISOs legitimate? The GENUINE CDs are published or else the little turkey wouldn't have anything to copy. Not like he had the nous to grab the correct snapshot and do his own ISO like some of us do to prepare for the relaese code.
Sounds a bit like the winderrrrs wanker warez kids can't wait until there is ftp stuff to d/load to puzzle out how to make a CD with and they can't "afford" to pre-order.
Sheeeesh, what a bunch of clueless bludgers!
(See Aussie slang dictionary for translation if you aren't AUS/NZ resident.
By Anonymous Coward (203.199.102.66) on
By tmclaugh (192.216.27.32) on
Is Grub drunk enough yet to grace us with a new video for 3.7?
3.6 I Have my DiscsComments
By Brian (205.161.1.46) on
Hehehe...I suppose on the scale of things you could/would regret the most that would rank pretty low...but...damn.
By Nikademus (217.136.145.212) nikademus at llorien.org on http://www.octools.com
excerpt from kd85:
OpenBSD 3.7 is ready for ordering, order now. We are shipping them 20th of May
damn, caught waiting.. :(
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By scrooge (159.148.213.11) on
By mattieu (82.127.97.158) mattieu.b@gmail.com on
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By Nikademus (85.201.17.135) nikademus at llorien.org on http://www.octools.com
By Wim (194.78.167.231) wim@kd85.com on http://eurobsd.org/
As we speak, a batch of packages is waiting to be picked up by UPS later this afternoon,
most preorders that are in UPS zones that are fairly cheap are beeing shipped out with UPS instead of regular mail at no extra cost. Those who are lucky will receive a tracking number via email, the other will get their package as usual with A Prior mail.
I hope by next release to ship out everything with UPS, but it's a matter of negociating better rates with UPS for countries like Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden.
Anyways, due to various reasons out of my control, like the CDs having a couple of days delay to get here and religious holidays closing down businesses like the postal service on Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week, I still hope to get everything out by next Monday, so by the end of next week everybody will get their All-in-one witch of the North good computing spell and brew kit.
Wim.
By mark patruck (82.82.50.160) mark@2ls4agd.net on
got my openbsd37-set yesterday afternoon. (kd85.com)
without a doubt, wim does an excellent job. never had any
problems.
cu, mark
By Anthony Roberts (68.145.103.21) on
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By Anonymous Coward (64.235.239.2) on
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By Anthony Roberts (68.145.103.21) on
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By Anonymous Coward (67.189.30.51) on
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By Anonymous Coward (80.219.121.189) on
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By Anthony Roberts (68.145.103.21) on
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By Anonymous Coward (80.219.121.189) on
Nothing prevents me from making my own cd's and selling them, under whatever name. Neither does it prevent me from offering paid ftp access to a self-made release under your scenario. It's morally dubious, but not illegal.
And it's only morally dubious because the OS is FREE in the first place.
I really dislike the idea of preferred access. Not in least because it would make second-class users of people who can't afford to pay the premium. Everyone should be able to use the OS, which was the idea at Berkeley.
That's not to say other ways of providing revenue for the project shouldn't be examined, just not in this two-tier fashion.
Tax hint: currently, if you make a donation with your order, the cd is billed @ normal price + donation.
By Garton Lics (68.124.62.87) garton.lics@gmail.com on
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By xhrl/thomasw (142.22.16.53) on
By sean (139.142.208.98) on
I remember this being an issue previously with the typical response of 'buy a t-shirt for packing material' but for some, t-shirts are hard to sneak on to a corporate PO.
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By Martin Hein (81.19.245.10) on
I have been buying the offical CDs since 2.7 and they all survied being shipped from somewhere to Wim in Belgium and from him to me in Denmark.
Last time I did order a Soekris at the same time and I dont think that counts as packing material.
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By Chad Stewart (24.97.84.33) cms@balius.com on balius.com
OpenBSD 3.7 (GENERIC) #50: Sun Mar 20 00:01:57 MST 2005
deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by National Semi ("Geode by NSC" 586-class) 267 MHz
cpu0: FPU,TSC,MSR,CX8,CMOV,MMX
cpu0: TSC disabled
real mem = 133799936 (130664K)
avail mem = 115593216 (112884K)
I'm happy to report that unlike my 3.6 CDs, this order showed up in perfect condition! The CDs were shrink wrapped (which I don't remember from past orders), and once opened, everything is as it should be. Maybe it was the two t-shirts. :)
By X (81.56.211.110) on
By sbr (66.11.172.61) sbr@gnook.org on http://gnook.org/~sbr/
By Anonymous Coward (216.107.0.44) on
By Anonymous Coward (213.118.73.109) on
Good job, Wim and the rest of the OpenBSD team!
(now off to upgrade some machines ;-) )