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Free Ubuntu CDs were awesome back then. "What do you mean I can just order 10 and pay nothing, not even shipping and just give them away?!?"
Definitely beat having to order packs of Debian releases, because Internet was slow and CD burners were expensive.
I too had same reaction when i received three disks. Till then i hadnt held a professional CD of anything and here i had for free. Subsequently got fedora and got turned off by how laggy it was for me.
At that time my access to internet was through a relative and it took ~9 hours to download 1GB. Net plan was 5GB free per month except 11pm to 3 am something wouldnt count against the free limit.
I don't recall if there was any limit per person but it made clear it still cost them to manufacture and ship so asked not to abuse them.
I only ordered once and got the disks for ubuntu, kubuntu and server edition of 10.04.
Took me a few years to realise what the server edition even was. Sadly I lost all disks but pretty much used the ubunutu gnome disks quite well.