Hi, On 08/12/2010 21:20, Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2010-12-08 04:20, Michael Meeks a écrit :Hi Alexander, On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:04 +0100, Alexander Thurgood wrote:In countries where power supplies are intermittent, or irregular, it matters a great deal. If your phone or electricity lines crap out part way through the download, and you were on a pay-per-minute connection, what would you do ? Risk downloading it, or go and obtain a pirated copy of some other more freely available software suite ?Would you download a copy of that proprietary suite instead ? or would you get it on CD ? Ultimately, I'd love to see some Ubuntu style ship-it service to provide CDs to serve the 3rd world cheaply. As/when we have a foundation and funding in place that seems like an obvious use of funds.I am also on the Mageia marketing team and we have just discussed the same issue and we are going to promote local Mageia communities to issue copies on DVD's. This seems like the most logical and most inexpensive way of promoting the distro where there is a need for it on disc. We could certainly promote this for our groups as well. This would also promote the creation of LibreOffice communities where they do not exist.
CD or DVD may not be the best for some countries where heat and humidity are very high, their life is very short (sometimes less than 3 months from my own experience). In Benin or Burkina Faso for example, USB sticks are far better than CD.
Kind regards Sophie