On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 10:37, Charlie M. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > October 7, 2003 09:03 am, Aron Smith wrote: > [..] > > > actually I do, no need to be mean. > > Not being mean, stating a fact. For more additional software than you can > shake a goat at add the contrib tree to the urpmi sources. Just remember that > the contrib apps are unsupported. > > Speaking of which there's also the unsupported tree. > > > > >Does anybody else think developers should work for free? Or that > > > > MandrakeSoft should be a non-profit company? > > > > > > I never said that ... I just would like it if they found way of making > > > profit while still sharing the distro for free & earn money of other > > > aspects. > > That was tried and the company has spent this year in the French equivalent of > Chapter 11. Concentration on the core business is required, the core is (or > should always be IMHO) the Mandrake Linux distribution. It's hard to convince > people to spend money to support the developers that make this possible when > the "Latest and Greatest" edition of the operating system is available as a > free download before paying customers receive their copy they bought. > > > > >Take a swing at Debian or Slack or Gentoo or Sorceror if you want free. > > > > Or use the free download version of Mandrake Linux and package all of > > > > the additional software you want from source. Or download the source > > > > code for the software you want, learn how, and build your own > > > > distribution. > > > > > > > >Or if you're truly that impressed with Mandrake Linux, do as Greg > > > > posted, and buy a box set or one of the "disk only" sets. > > > > > > > >As with all Open Source Software the choices are yours. > > > > Don't forget to give your 9.1 distro to some one who wishes to escape > > the evil empire > > > I always donate previous box sets, either to the public library or someone > that has expressed enough interest to try and use the download edition. Free > Download editions are always passed along to utter newbies, and are installed > on every system i assemble for anyone. If they won't pay for a Windows > license that's what they get to use as an OS. that's what I like to hear:-)) > - -- > Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org > Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk > 11:28:33 up 17 days, 50 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.13 > People say I live in my own little fantasy world... well, at least they > *know* me there! > -- D.L. Roth > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/gvnKG11CaRuZZSIRAkPIAJ9XOK4DYphpYmEnELpK0FHsBXn7sACePJGq > Iy8+3IMrnCUqvZhqiPKIJgg= > =8kgm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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