On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:35:35AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Debian fans, > > I have the following modest proposal : > > Debian should start charging for high-speed apt-get/dselect/whatever > downloads from it's sites. 56k is free, anything faster you pay for. > Then we can pay people to work on the not fun stuff that needs doing.
This is a really 'not so great' idea. If I have high speed internet, I can always just DL overnight instead of 10 min! :) It will not save bandwidth. > And people who download ISO's to sell should be paying a LOT. That's against policy - no discrimination. > And this is not a troll. > > Debian is worth it, although there has been a lot of grumbling about > it lately (some of it deserved). I personally would pay (more). > > I would like to see more effort directed at the "not fun" stuff in > development, like error handling, documentation, testing, correctness > of packaging. People working in their spare time don't like to do > these sorts of tasks and I don't blame them. That's why there is bugs.debian.org - if you have a patch or something or find some sort of error, just submit a bug. This is important when running testing and unstable. Many things in development are not necessarly "fun" :) > I honestly think that more money could make Debian an even better > distribution. So is MS Windows better?
