-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 13 March 2002 7:30 pm, you wrote: > Not all of us live in North America. In Australia, you do not tip. > Waitesses are paid a decent wage here. Just because a cable is at a > house for TV, doesn't mean it's "on"...I don't get the analogy. The > whole fun of linux is that it's made by people who want to do it, in > their spare time. Tell me, how much money does Mandrake send down to > the people who actually write software that they include in their > distro? And Im not talking about mandrake-specific softare.
I know for a fact they sponsor (pay a full time wage) for people working on KDE, the kernel, and the prelude projects (i remember reading this on their website). I believe they also pay partial salaries for more people on other projects also. Dont forget that the mandrake specific software (mainly control center and hardware auto detection stuff) is very good, and they release it under GPL for other distributors to use i they wish. SuSE (for example) has a proprietry configuration tool, although they also sponser the linux dvd project, and other developers as well. Mandrakesoft does give a good bit of money back to the community, and provides us with a distribution of the highest quality. If anyone here ever installed an old (pre red hat 5) distribution then they can understand the work that mandrakesoft has put into their software. Sadly, i am currently a student and cant afford to pay the monthly contributions (i could if i didnt have to pay in a lump sum - note for guys at mandrake), however i encouraged my mother to pay for a boxed set of 8.1 when i installed linux for her at home, and i had purchased a boxed set of 7.1 a while back, so i am trying to support the best i can. All i can say is that i hope the company gets through this hard time, and doesnt waste any of the money that it recieves from the good pepole of the community. Good Luck Tom Badran -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8j8jZXCpWOla2mCcRAvxIAJ49lsBYOe2y6kYED4V29ZQVT02t2gCeJzvy bT2Ow2NgvTIsD4ovVupPCe0= =eGSo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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