Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 06:27:34 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@newsguy.com> Cc: "Advocacy List" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: Selling older versions of FreeBSD Message-ID: <4926.904915654@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Sep 1998 09:11:41 EDT." <199809041311.GAA29137@newsguy.com>
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> On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:02:04 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > >>From time to time surplus CDs of the previous release become > >available. The next time will probably be in November. They tend to > >go to well-known contributers, which you could become by then. > > That I recall the only time previous versions were given away was > 2.2.6. > Was this ever done before? It's been done with almost every release since 1.1, though at rather smaller quantities than with 2.2.6. > I think a deep discount may be better than free. At the very least > shipping should be covered. If we ever do something like a big 2.2.6 give-away again, we're certainly going to have to ask for this much. It cost tens of thousands of dollars to send all the 2.2.6 CDs we sent and that's not something the accountant lets you do very often. Usually once. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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