[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions for the ISO

Sun Nov 7 10:48:03 CET 2010

On 06/11/10 19:40, andre999 wrote:
+> Wolfgang Bornath a Ã©crit :
+>> 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.
+>
+> Exactly.
+> I'm in the region of MontrÃ©al, Canada, where broadband is
+> common, but high bandwidth is *very* expensive.
+> Personally I have slow ADSL (technically broadband), but
+> with a not very high monthly limit.
+> Luckily, I can take my portable to the local library to
+> download my Mandriva DVDs for free.
+> Most people in this supposedly favored region do not have
+> this option.
+> (i.e., no ADSL or not high limit or the local library
+> doesn't provide free Internet or no portable.)
+<snip>
+
+Likewise, Italy has high bandwidth, but I'm in a rural area 
+without broadband where dial-up internet is unusable because 
+the connection is too intermittent, short-lived and erratic.
+The only way of getting onto the internet is by mobile 
+broadband  - and even that's not particularly fast in this 
+location.
+
+Doug
+
+