You could gather a set of like-situated people, and 'pay' somebody else to beta test... With all the jobless people around, I'm sure you could find somebody competent enough... mark On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:02:18PM -0500, Gordon R. Keehn wrote: > I could, until Redhat went and priced themselves out of my range. I > could afford a few dollars a year for the privilege of downloading fixes > from their servers; I even bought my first couple of distros from them, > before I got my broadband service. I have a job and a wife, each of > which expects 80% of my time. I spend my days doing software testing > and support; when I get home I want to be able to download my email, > browse a few web pages, and pay my bills without having to worry about > reporting any problems I might encounter. > Incidentally, it's the last of the above that insures I'll be using > Win<whatever> for quite a while to come. At least until Intuit ports > Quicken over, or some bright programmer writes a package that runs on > Linux and talks to my bank. > Cheers. > > -- > > -- > > ---- > Gordon R. Keehn, CPSM Change Team > CICS/390 Service, USA > Gordon Keehn/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS, 1-919-254-1690 > > > > > Jason Malone wrote: > > >Nope. You could always buy RedHat. > > > >On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 15:14, Preston Crawford wrote: > > > > > >>----- Original Message ----- > >>From: Karl DeBisschop > >>Sent: 12/10/2003 2:11:41 PM > >>To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>Subject: Re: how bleeding edge will the next fedora release be? > >> > >> > >> > >>>My take on it is that FC2 will be as stable as you want it to be. If you > >>>'pay' for the release by testing during the development cycle it will be > >>>more stable than if you sit on the sidelines expecting enterprise > >>>stability for no cost. > >>> > >>> > >>It's funny that you use the term "pay" since many of us would be happy to > >>pay actual money if the terms weren't constantly shifting. I'd gladly pay > >>for a relatively stable for Fedora. But the only way I can pay is by > >>being a beta tester? > >> > >>Preston > >> > >> > >>-- > >>fedora-list mailing list > >>fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >> > >> > > > > > >-- > >fedora-list mailing list > >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- mark@xxxxxxxxx/markm@xxxxxx/markm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx __________________________ . . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder |\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ | | | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... http://mark.mielke.cc/
