Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 30th Jul 2005 02:20 UTC, submitted by gireesh
YellowTAB released a Zeta 1.0 LiveCD and they are charging just 10 Euros for it. If you return it you get a 5 Euro discount toward the normal CD version of 1.0.
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2005-06-29
I was expecting a free ($0) download. I know it sounds a little silly, but if I were trying to promote a product I wouldn't charge money for a trial version liveCD.
From here I would have to go to the other side of the province just to see a Mac in a store, I would have to order from Ontario to get the nearest commercial Linux distribution, and I would have to order at least as far as Ontario to get a copy of Zeta, probably further. It's a lot of time waiting, and the hassle of using the slow postal service just to satisfy my curiosity really isn't worth it. Sure there is a piracy threat in having a free download liveCD version, even if it is reduced how long will it take someone to patch it. I don't blame YT for charing money, but at the same time I know a lot more people could be reached with a free liveCD that has limitations built in such as only working for so long before rebooting or not having write support to hard drives and the like.
It's not that I'm cheap, it's just that my curiosity about Zeta isn't worth $15 CAD as of yet.