Re: [Opencd-devel] What about flavors?

[Steve M. <st...@op...>]

On Saturday 04 May 2002 09:20 pm, Bill Rees wrote:
> This flavor business is veering wildly off the original mark:  to provide
> open source programs for the typical windows user.  This means one flavor
> not several.  Once the one flavor is out and in distribution, then focusing
> other flavors on smaller audiences makes sense but until the original
> purpose for this whole project is served, multiple flavors just detracts.

I find large IT depts are actually 'average' users with a certificate of some 
kind.  They are all over the spectrum, unfortunately.

However, that being said, would a "desktop user" use 750M of a CD on desktop 
apps?  Really..?  Legit Question.  

Perhaps the underlying idea here is that we have a limited resource... a CD.  
If a desktop users isn't going to take up an entire CD.  And I have doubts 
that it would (but am willing to admit being wrong if you'd like to do the 
math), then _why not_ cram "other" flavors in there until we are forced to 
re-evalute the scope of what we have to work with.

Perhaps at that time we will have more to work with too. No?
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