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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:1885 alt.cd-rom:2382 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!network.ucsd.edu!nic!richter From: richter@nic.cerf.net (Adam J. Richter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,alt.cd-rom Subject: 4.4BSD-alpha CDROM Keywords: cdrom Message-ID: <2278@nic.cerf.net> Date: 9 Jul 92 10:18:07 GMT Article-I.D.: nic.2278 Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Organization: Yggdrasil Computing Infrastructure Corporation Lines: 40 CSRG is supposed to release the 4.4-alpha tape in the next week or so. To raise money, CSRG is going to charge $1,000 for a tape, and they've asked a number of major FTP sites not to make the tape available for a while so that companies will actually buy it. On one hand, there seems to be a consensus on this group that additional funding for CSRG would be money well spent. On the other hand, I suspect that there are a lot people who would like to get the 4.4-alpha distribution, but who cannot justify spending a thousand dollars for the tape. Fortunately, I have a plan. My company, Yggdrasil Computing Infrastructure Corp., will sell a 4.4-alpha CDROM and give CSRG 60% of the sales revenue from this CDROM until November 1st. At $100 each, this CDROM will allow people to contribute to CSRG while, at the same time, getting something tangible in return. Maybe I'll thrown in a T-shirt with deal if I can think of a snappy slogan for it. In order to avoid undercutting CSRG, company sites with more than twenty employees will be required to buy a minimum of 15 CD's. Hopefully this should help fund CSRG while reducing the annoyance of not having 4.4-alpha available for FTP. At the moment, I plan to make the CDROM simply contain the compressed tar file of the distribution and a README file. If there is enough interest I could make an unpacked directory tree that was compliant with ISO9660 level 2 for non-DOS machines, but I'd still have to change some of the file names to make them legal for ISO9660. If you have any suggestions or comments about the plan that I've outlined, send me email. -- Adam J. Richter 409 Evelyn Avenue, Apt. 312 richter@cerf.net Albany, CA 94706 (510)528-3209 Another member of the League for Programming Freedom (league@prep.ai.mit.edu).