** On Jun 09, Matthew Vernon scribbled: > "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <jhm@cistron.nl> writes: > > > > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 16:29:30 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > Do you have data to back up "vast majority"? > > > > Try living in Europe for a year, and you'll simply know from experience why > > downloading isn't an option in many cases. > > *ahem* I have lived in the UK for the last 21-and-a-bit years. Or does > that not count? Sure, it's better to have a CD for most things on crap > dialup, but even on crappy dialup, I've installed the odd small > package. Free services are on the increase here too. I definitely agree even though I live in Poland (a country most people in the West think is still in middle-ages :)))). > I still don't think you've provide evidence that "the vast majority" > of users use CD. I'm not sure you've even shown that a majority do. In Poland 80% of Debian users got it off the net. That's for sure. marek
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