On Monday 18 March 2002 04:36, Sridhar Dhanapalan opened a hailing frequency and transmitted:
> One thing I don't understand is how people have interpreted > Mandrakesoft's request for people to join the Mandrake Club as a plea for > charity to keep an ailing company afloat. It is no such thing. The i think you have the right of it. as i keep explain to all my mandrake using friends, money now sees to that they keep the type of people that are paid by mandrake to work for projects like KDE or Gnome. mandrake is in ok condition, but mandrakes contribution to free software may take a small hit. since i can't code, i pay so others can. on the other hand, if you like and use the distro, and can afford to, shouldn't you support it? even if they aren't begging for cash to stay afloat, surely paying for software you use is a "good thing"© if you can do it. by no means is that a guilt trip. i used 7.0 briefly, 7.1 and 7.2 all without giving a penny. i didn't have pennies. starving student and all that. nw, while not wealthy by any stretch, i can afford to live (student can't do that) so i make donations and buy boxes and join clubs. behold the magic linux, ;-) i wasn't a thief for using it before, and now i am a proud contributor. -- Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/
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