distributing 1.0 (was: Re: [WikiEN-l] copyright on old paintings)

Wed Oct 22 18:42:30 UTC 2003

What's the problem ? I send several time linux distribution to Ivory Coast
they know very well how to use a CD-burner.
Eric Demolli
(Ericd)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
To: <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:10 AM
Subject: distributing 1.0 (was: Re: [WikiEN-l] copyright on old paintings)

> Richard Grevers wrote:
> >And in some countries High-speed internet is charged
> >for by data volume transferred. There is no way I'd be
> >downloading any ISO images on an account with 1GB/month
> >"free" and the rest at $0.2 ber MB.
>
> Eh gads! 1 GB/month? That is so draconian. I do that easily in a week and
> periodically in a single day when I'm updating my system. And that is just
> /my/ computer; my partner and our roomate use even more bandwidth with
online
> games and downloading media files (and they are both Windows users so they
> also have to update /way/ more often). We are only limited by speed; at
any
> one moment we are only able to share a single 1.5 MB/s DSL connection.
> America is grand!
>
> But the beauty of even having such a restricted pipeline as you do, is
that
> only one person in your community needs to download the ISO; then many,
many
> copies can be made of that single file. Then the updates can trickle-in
> easily under your 1 GB limit.
>
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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