Hey Cory -- don't forget that Apple is opening its new store in Palo Alto in a couple days. A free OS X.1 CD sounds like just the swag to lure you to the grand opening, no? I think you should volunteer to staff the genius bar, where you can tell people how to brow beat Apple when their iBooks fail. ;-)

Heh. Too true. Except that I'm in Toronto until the end of next week.

Cory, I'm going to Seybold today. Email me a mailing address and I'll pick you up a copy and mail it to you.

500 meg...sounds like a whole new OS.

Obviously, you have no idea how much it would cost apple to allow downloads of the updates. 250K downloads at 500 megs each... one and a half million dollars?

Actually, dorks, I'm the founder of a company that does distributed content distribution, and one of our sister companies in the Battery portfolio is Akamai, another content distribution network. Before that, I was the CIO of a large ad agency, and I signed the bandwidth POs and bills. So, I know.
And if you go back and read my post, you'll find that I am miffed because Apple won't let its customers redistribute the free update online. I can't put it on my FTP site or in my Gnutella cache, which won't cost Apple a cent.

Finally, the problem of distributing hundreds of thousands of 650MB ISO images has been thoroughly licked for years by the Linux world, where LUGs and users mirror the distros as soon as they're released.

That last message struck me as pretty hilarious, until I realized that CD was responding to "dorks" the previous poster, not "Hey all you dorks" collectively. I wonder if that was intentional on the part of "dorks" the poster. It's all so confusing, time for caffeine.

Did anyone get a 10.1 CD yet? Any word on how to get it in the Great White North?