On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 05:58:16PM +0100, Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) mentioned:
> (The disks could easily be mastered on a weekly / bi-weekly basis assuming
> you have the bandwidth, one disk, many people)
How much would people pay for a CD subscription ? What would you need,
and how often ?
I'm just thinking. Say a fiver a week for everything released on
freshmeat, with free "bonus" issues whenever one of your favourite distros
comes out.
That's £22 a month, for ~2GB. Not far off DSL :)
Kate
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