[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions for the ISO

Sat Nov 6 11:56:48 CET 2010

2010/11/6 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org>:
+>
+> I understand bending backward to help those people in backward countries who
+> cannot download, but should we be bothered with those, in the first world, who
+> are too stingy to get a proper Internet connection ?
+
+What is such a question supposed to be?
+I do not see any difference between backward or forward countries, I
+only see users with large bandwidth and such with small bandwidth. You
+may never heard about it but there are large regions in the so-called
+"First World" which are not yet connected to the internet in a proper
+way (I know regions in Germany where you are lucky to have a dial-up
+connection). As I learned there are also regions in the US which are
+as far industrialized as your favourite "backward country".
+
+Then there is the cost of fast connections - not everybody has the
+money to pay for 6MBit lines in countries where such connections are
+expensive. And not everybody can put internet costs on top of his
+priority list.
+
+Yes, we should be bothered with those.
+-- 
+wobo
+