Re: Red Hat Lunix 8 with DVD

Any chance of a DVD version being available in Australia?

Though since ill be in the states in October ill buy the boxed set there
this time around but in the future i wont be able to do that.

Dennis
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 00:03, Jay Turner wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:12:28PM +0100, Tom Coady wrote:
> > Sorry Jay, but this does not answer the question, if that's what it was, as
> > to why Europe gets DVDs while the us is still on CDs. Is it because more
> > disks looks like better value to Americans?
> 
> I don't think that it was so much that, as one DVD looks more valuable to
> the European market.  There really wasn't that much interest in DVDs here
> in the States until recently, as the price of DVD drives started dropping
> and more things started requiring DVD drives (just check out the large
> majority of DVD movies which are coming out now with special DVD-ROM
> additions on them.)  Even given the fact that you could have one DVD or 5
> CDs, many folks in the States would still take the CDs, as they didn't want
> to invest in the DVD drive.
> 
> My point was basically that I didn't think there was a legal or technical
> reason for not producing a DVD in the States to this point.  Now, if we
> wanted to make a movie about the inner-workings of Red Hat, publish it on a
> DVD and allow our illustrous linux users to view it . . . now we have a
> legal problem :-)
> 
> - jkt
> 
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