Software development. :D More importantly, what can users do to make it easier for developers to write code? That is the important question to ask when a thought like this comes up. Is it more efficient of developer time for me to purchase my own usb stick and deal with it myself, or request developers offer a usb alternative? On Nov 30, 2015 12:17 PM, "Theo de Raadt" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I would buy an official release on USB or preferably sd card, if it > > was on offer. Presumably the production costs would be less as well. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > How do you figure that? > > We put everything on the internet. Thousands upon thousands upon > thousands of downloads happen, and the more convenient it becomes the > fewer sales occur. That is the nature of the situation. USB devices > will be the same, except you cannot farm out "writing them" to just > anyone. > > Production costs are not the problem. The problem is that there > is ZERO RETURN on the effort taken. > > I thank the crowd for once again suggesting we (me? people I know?) > should spend time on doing something which a very small handful of > people want. > > I was going to work on some source code today, but I'll get right on > this task, pricing out USB sticks and trying to find a way to make > this work. /sarc > > > (And also.. not liking to complain, but the last two CD releases > > have had irritating bugs in them. Disc 2 of 5.7 was fubar, and had to > > be replaced, and the source tree on 5.8 wasn't correct either. At > > least on flash memory, problems could be cheaply and easily corrected > > at the last minute ;-) ) > > So you have a solution already. But still, I should invest my time > at finding a good USB stick, oh it should have a write protect switch > that actually works, oh we need to use epoxy to glue it, oh and people > who will write each of them, and god help us if the usb sticks are bad > and have `irritating bugs'. Come on people. What do you want us to do? > > Product manufacture, or software development? > > Make up your mind.
