-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> a friend of mine 'bought' a Mandriva, spent USD 80 on it, because he > wanted a box, manual and support. I was quite happy because that way > Mandriva gets some money to support the great work they are doing. Good. That clears up one of my doubts as to whether you were more biased towards "never buy/purchase what is available for download" group that sometimes crops up on various mailing lists. > But, i find implied somewhere in some of the comments on this thread, > the idea that 'free' mandriva is 'pirated'. It is not. I think the > paid for versions have some closed drivers or some other features. > And has more software on the DVD than the free DVD - which means what > is missing on the DVD has to be downloaded - that's all. In spite of the facility of being able to download bits that make the free DVD equivalent to the commercial DVD, if the original question was with a clear intent of willingness to pay, I would say that it will be generally better to encourage folks to pay to purchase. - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGxC6yXQZpNTcrCzMRAqRAAJ9MB8urB3DvHLXE0TDPtKJ6ZuZ9sACfY/yv ocvZslxsvJutsMlxHZoQWY4= =QIiT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
