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Is this a joke?
Is this a joke?
Posted Mar 21, 2008 9:17 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: I don't get it by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Fedora's advice on GPL compliance
Consider the case of a Fedora Live CD which is probably the more popular means of getting Fedora in events compared to regular DVD's and you can see why it wouldn't be possible to fit both binaries and source in a single disk.
We are talking about DVD-ROM's here, not DVD-R's, right? 8.9GB DVD-ROM is marginally more expensive then 4.7GB DVD-ROM, so there are plenty of space to put sources. Situation with DVD-R is totally different: dual-layer DVD-R indeed are 10 times more expensive to produce then single-layer DVD-R. But with DVD-ROM's it's not the same story: you only need two stamps instead of one and marginal cost is the same in both cases! So if Fedora is distribution with less-then-4GB public DVD ISO's (and they were doing this last time I've checked) they can easily fit sources to 8.9GB DVD-ROM!
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Is this a joke?
Posted Mar 22, 2008 20:25 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
There is a significant difference between the cost of CD vs DVD media and especially CD vs DVD writers in many regions. Read what you are replying to more carefully. I was referring to "Live CD" and not DVD. There is no way to fit complete binaries and sources into a single live cd.