On 10/3/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2006/10/03 12:25, M.Salah wrote:
> I would like to help funding the project but not Like this !! more money
> goes to the wrong person.
>
> so it would be nice to have low cost cd's to be shipped for those out side
> USA/Canada especially when you have this huge currency exchange rate.
This isn't exactly what you're asking, but it may be worth asking a book
shop if they can order it (the CD has an ISBN number shown on the release
page; for 4.0 it's 0-9731791-8-X). This probably won't help the CD cost
but might save on shipping and tax.
I think he is asking for some thing similar to the EEE ( Eastern
Economy Edition ) books.
I did manage to get a few BSD books ( 2 of them on OpenBSD, the PF
book could not be published in EEE because Jacek fell ill and went out
of contact after the first round of talks- But Jeremy has kindly shown
his willingness to get his PF book published in the EE edition ) with
the help of J. C. Roberts and other good BSD friends published in
India in the EEE editions.
No starch press was extremely friendly in their approach towards my
request. For example if I order Michael's "Absolute OpenBSD" fro the
website it would cost me 40 dollars + 40 dollars shipping ie.
approximately 80x50=4000 Indian Rupees. At the time I started using
OpenBSD it was more than my one month's total salary :-)
Now No Starch Press produces the EEE edition which cost me just 1/10
th the price i.e approximately 400 Rupee ( 10 dollars ) from the
nearest book store.
Now I did not not ask Theo about EE edition of OpenBSD CDs because
after the current conversion from Rupee to dollars I don't think the
project is going to get any significant revenue. And since OpenBSD CDs
are primarily a way to supporting the project it would be an almost
futile exercise. Another fact is that at this point there are not many
people who will purchase the OpenBSD CDs even if there is an EE
edition.
But your currency seems to be higher than mine :-)
Also in some case I feel sending in Money or hardware might better
benefit the project. As you said in some cases more money goes to the
wrong person :-(
Kind Regards
Siju
