Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 13:34 -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
What's the point? I checked out linux cd mall. They charge $12.50 for the CD set (or DVD) and CentOS makes ONE DOLLAR. Unless you envision tens of thousands of people buying CDs, it hardly seems like a worthwhile endeavor unless you're the CD distributor.
You may not understand the VOLUME of centos right now. We serve about 16 TB per month of data from just the internal centos servers. That is just traffic for supplying updates to other public mirrors, Bittorrent ISO seeds and up2date/yum run against our mirrors. That does not in any way measure traffic of updates run against the 41 public mirrors.
In the last 2 months there have been 30527 CD SETS or full DVDs downloaded from the CentOS BitTorrents totaling 62.96TiB. That does not in any way measure the ISOs downloaded from the 41 public mirrors.
CentOS is very high volume right now ... and it is getting bigger everyday. It takes money and resources to distribute at this level. We need more of both.
Ah, I didn't realise that things had taken off to that degree. Again, the point of my original post was that I thought the people who were doing all the heavy lifting ought to make more than 8-10%. But given the numbers above, perhaps that's still going to be a fair amount of $$$. I'm just tickled the distro exists and I've given DVDs to a few people who have later decided to replace production Redhat servers with CentOS. I'll just have to encourage more of them to use the DONATE button on the website. I guess I just tune those buttons out over time. I didn't even notice them until I went hunting for them today.
Cheers and congrats!