From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 24 11:15:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01810 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:15:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp6448.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01784 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:15:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA13831; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:15:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:15:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: patl@phoenix.volant.org cc: Tim Gerchmez , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My verdict on 2.2.7... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moved from -bugs and -newbies] On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > So you just threw the former download away? Unless the call was free, > downloading probably cost more than the CD would have. And there are Uh, I don't know where you live, but around here, there wouldn't be any comparison at all. I could probably make the call long-distance and it would still be cheaper to download it. And that's not even taking the exchange rate into account, which is absolutely murder now-a-days. Not to discourage anyone from buying the CD (esp. when all profits go to FreeBSD.ORG! :), but I personally hold no grudges against someone who forgoes buying every new CD and downloads it instead. Heck, even MS provides some of its upgrades (aka. bugfixes) for free download. -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message