-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well said.
On Saturday 14 December 2002 03:25 pm, Warly wrote: > "francesco.melo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i have dvd-r burner ... so for me and i think for other user it is > > better to have a single big iso in the mirror > > and burn it in a dvd-+r .. > > > > is it possible? > > Yes. It is possible. But is it interesting for Mandrakesoft? > > You can do it by yourself, moreover, it is quite simple. > > The great idea behind our economical model, is that we let for free > what we are doing, although we still need to eat, to pay our rents, > and even sometimes to get some holidays (this is not necessary for a > man to survive, I accept, except maybe regarding gc and snowboard, but > it is another story). And users who use it, or like it, can contribute > back to mandrake buying a box, subscribing to mandrakeclub, helping a > lot on cooker, advocating, pressuring other people to use it, sending > food to developers (warning no more nuts, this makes them become fat > and inefficient), or whatever. > > Theoretically this model is ideal. Everyone can try or product for a > very little price, either downloading it or finding it in magazine, > and contribute what he can afford, or what he thinks that worths. > > Mandrakelinux 9.0 DVD edition is 60 euros on Mandrakestore. > > 60 euros! It is so expensive! I can just download the images > and burn them on a 10 euros blank DVD! > > Yes. > > But what will we earn if I put a DVD image on the mirrors? > > - You will be happy > > - You will pay 10 euros for a blank DVD. Most of it go to mitsui or > Taiyo Yuden, and if you are in France you even pay some taxes that > will go to film or music majors, or even microsoft. Of course we get > nothing from these taxes are our products are free. > > - You have alreay payed 500 euros to sony or yamaha or pioneer for > your burner. > > So the only point for me will be point 1, point 2 and 3 will just made > microsoft, sony, vivendi even more powerful, and make our work even > harder. > > I do not care if you are copying tens for divx films and mp3 and > windows games and whatever. After all if Mandrakesoft dies it is just > that we were not strong enough, or not intelligent enough. Because we > did not work as hard as we should, or we were payed to much, or we > were too many... > > Why have you bought a DVD burner for? > > I could not blame you, I did the same with my first CD burner. > > Part of the gnu/linux success is because it is free, and because people > can get and use it for free. In our world we can get nearly everything > with money, and we think that just everything can be compared in terms > of dollars or euros. And in this world, gnu/linux distributions are > just a good bargain. > > But it may exists another world where money is not so important, and > where you pay with time, with helping others, with not thinking > selfishly. > > In this world, gnu/linux is not free, it is even more expensive than > whatever you can afford with money, because it need _you_ to think > and act in another way. > > The world will not change if we do not first change ourselves. - -- Please encrypt all correspondence. PGP key available from: http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9+w8fgzJdfX+cTW8RAmHxAJsErhQ2KWecVMoSz4fyK1eFYzBqCACeKjXm o/SwelQ4lHn5IDWTSCE5JiU= =Iup1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
