Not Happy with ShipIt

[Mario Guerra]

2005/7/19, ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi <ari.torhamo at saunalahti.fi>:
> Of course people expect promises to be fulfilled, even when they are
> promised something for free. And it's not like Al said that Ubuntu is a
> failure, nor that ShipIt program is a failure. He's just worried about
> making a succesfull installfest and being able to give out the CDs
> people are waiting from him.
> 
> On the other hand it's nice to see people defending Ubuntu so
> uncondinationally and often with anything they can get their hands on
> ;-) , but I don't think it benefits Ubuntu to try to reject constructive
> and well-founded criticism. Well-founded critisism is rather one of the
> things that's needed to get things better. Canonical and the developers
> are doing 97% excellent job and I'm sure they are just happy when
> someone helps them track down that remaining 3% :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ari Torhamo
> 
> P.S. If I remember right, I got my CDs in little more than two weeks -
> very fast anyway (I'm not at my own machine now and can't check the
> exact time)
> 
> 

This answer is just common sense especially regarding a period of time
given, even if the product is free.

What happens here?. Probably success in excess......I' m sure
Canonical is coping with this. As suggested. one alternative is the
possibility that one pays the shipment, but it seems more a problem of
distribution channels.

-- 
Mario A. Guerra
San José, Costa RIca