[room] OpenBSD, продажи CD и бизнес-модели

[Michael Shigorin]

http://lwn.net/Articles/176478/

"It is a rare project, however, which is able to get very far
with sales of CDs and donations. There is little motivation for
anybody with a broadband network connection to order CDs; a
simple download gets more current software more quickly. This is
why Linux distributors have been moving away from CD sales as a
business model for years - and those which haven't are wishing
they had. The OpenBSD project is simply discovering the same
thing others have found out: the value of a CD is quite low.
Anybody who is in the business of selling CDs full of free
software is in a commodity business, and one which is in
competition with its own customers at that."

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