I have looked at the sites, etc - they don't accept American Express (not that I blame them - I can't wait to get rid of Amex - they are such greedy bastards and no vendor will touch them anymore - anywhere - people scoff at me when I pull out the Amex). I never received a reply to that.
Internationally from Australia one is looking at bank fees, horrific delays and all sorts of stuffing around one doesn't need to send money overseas. That and the fact that in Australian currency (we are a deluded farming nation that thinks agriculture is the way of the future - hence our currency devaluation) - it becomes quite expensive (double in price) - so I asked them to look at a local Australian contact or 'point of presence'. Never received a reply to that either.. -----Original Message----- From: Rolf Pedersen [mailto: Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft Mcleod, Ian wrote: > too right - I just gave up waiting around for Mandrake to make it easy for > them to receive $$$ and just stuck with the download version - because by > the time it finally arrives in Australia it's probably out of date anyway. > > And I never received a reply to my 15 or so emails regarding Mandrake Club > and how to pay for it from Australia either. > > Mandrake really need to try harder if they want to remain financially > healthy (indeed I hope they still are!) There are links to Mandrake Club all over the site, including on the Downloads page and the header of the main page: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ Following one of those links will take you to the introductory Club page for not-logged-in viewers: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/ In the introduction at the top of that page is a link to join: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club/ On that page are links to information and buttons to join at various levels, one of which might bring you to this page: http://mandrakesecure.com/storev2/pay.php Where Australia is on the list of countries 'shipped to'. I use a Visa bankcard for my transactions. I have seen mention of 'cheques' on these pages (international money order?) and Pay Pal. A 'voluntary contributions' page that predates the club but is not actively promoted is available to anyone who spends nothing to get the distro they use and want to support it monetarily: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/ There is nothing free about what it takes to develop the isos on those servers, the infrastructure that houses that development, that hosts this list. If anybody here is still laboring under the misconception that they are entitled to a free download because of the GPL ought to take a close look at the text: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html "Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible -- just enough to cover the cost. Actually we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If this seems surprising to you, please read on." .....http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
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