On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 07:02, civileme wrote: <snip> > Mandrakesoft is GPL with everything it does except on the commercial > software disks and the club downloads.
Yes, and these people who are saying otherwise, notably only since recent discussions at various websites concerning MandrakeSoft's financial problem, is rather annoying. > If you folk have checked other distros lately, I think you will find that > few if any are as mature as this one in as many areas. Tried RH 7.3 and was not at all impressed. Dual booting lasted all of 3 weeks. > I might think of > making my own distro using Mandrake as a base if this one goes bust, but > switching to any of the others? Forget it. I am here cause this one was > friendly at a personal, technical, and corporate level, and the others > were decidedly unfriendly at one or more of those levels. Agreed where RH 7.3 is concerned! > If you have > ever asked a question on a RH flame errr... help list, you know very well > what I mean. Sure do... no welcome mat at that door. The users there kinda remind me of the dogs I had... very territorial and always scrapping with each other. > S.u.S.E. is so far from GPL that I would never consider > them, though they seem evil enough to be propped up by IBM and Intel to > the tune of more than $45 million (Mandrake needs less than a tenth of > that). > > And, yes, if I did something to continue the effort the Mandrake folks > started, I would find some help and create a non-profit scientific, > educational, and charitable purposes tax exempt corporation and seek > private foundation funding for the preservation of essential freedoms. Cool! Three cheers for Civileme! I'd be an avid follower for one and I bet plenty of others would too. But I sincerely hope it never comes to that. > But let's be a little more optimistic for now. MandrakeClub has 20,000 > members and people are investing to preserve the effort. Just continue > what is done. Yep, keep the support up folks! I agree with someone on this list when referring to the Chapter 11 thing, who said DON'T hold back your support until things come right: it helps to prove to the court that the business is still viable. MandrakeSoft need our support NOW! > Civileme And BTW, its nice to see you're still around Civileme. Cheers Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today
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