Not Happy with ShipIt

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Tue Aug 2 00:50:33 UTC 2005


> Not strange at all. Ubuntu offers free (as in beer) CDs; they don't even 
> ask us to pay the shipping. That's a helluva deal. OTOH, the vendors 
> offer the same CDs for a small charge for the disks and shipping. It 
> strikes me as a simple trade off: a few bucks against a long wait.

So you are saying that theses vendors get official/proper/pressed CD's
from Canonical, the same that we get sent for free ? 
If so, then great, it means that shipit already has the
mechanism/infrastructure to offer the choice between fast/not free and
free/waittoolong. So we just need an optional check box on the shipit
order page : "I want to receive them in less than 2 weeks, I want to pay
for this extra service".

Looking forward to seeing this implemented in time for Breezy, as well
as having the possibility to order the DVD :-), which I find very
attractive/convenient, but can't download since I have no DVD writer tp
burn the ISO with...so not much point... 


--
Vince





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