Barran, Richard wrote:
Morning all,
I've received a very interesting Mandrake Community Newsletter this
morning. I'm including here the two most relevant paragraphs:
Even though all of us here at MandrakeSoft are excited about the
upcoming release, we've also been distracted by
: Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation
pay pal is also one of the most insecure methods of doing e-business so
I'm told by a business friend of mine.
True? No?
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Actually, you are safer using a credit card online than a debit card (or a 'check
card' type credit card that debits from your checking account) because the credit card
company is liable for most of the chares in cases of fraud (assuming you inform them
of the situation as soon as possible)
sda wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:45:45AM -, Barran, Richard wrote:
Morning all,
I've received a very interesting Mandrake Community Newsletter this
morning. I'm including here the two most relevant paragraphs:
That said I'd like to join the club, however each time I've tried it
asks
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 03:47, Tom Brinkman wrote:
[snippet]
Last, and probly the least contribution (Mandrake doesn't make
much, the middle men do) is to buy Mandrake in a store like
Wal*Mart or Best Buy, or other retail outlet.
The one thing to be said in favour of this is that
,
John
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From: FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation
pay pal is also one of the most insecure methods of doing e-business so
I'm told by a business friend of mine
sda wrote:
Maybe they do, Maybe they don't, but the internet is NOT a safe place to
be entrusting that kind of information to foreign third parties. I hope
debit card acceptance proliferates soon.
I think a debit card is worse than a credit card -- money is drawn
directly from your bank
Every Linux distro I have and used has been bought. Primarily because
downloading any of them is not feasible with my dial up connection and the
users who want to go online. If I had a high speed connection then, honestly
speaking, would download Linux for free.
The donation part is a little
You make a very interesting point and I think I can follow up with an
example.
I live near a huge electronic store called Fry's Electronic. I have
purchased everything from my laptop, the parts for my own gigahertz tower,
two monitors, iMac, Linux-Mandrake 7.0-7.1 and 8.0, WindowsME and XP,
Hello to you Richard
From what I have read visiting Mandrakes home page I understand that they really are in trouble so I hurried and subscribe myself to the Mandrake Users Club and intending to buy the new 8.2 Release to support them more.They face, I think, the dilemma of cutting out personnel
Regards
Dimitris
P.S. Question: I really didn't understand what the letter of your employer
that you are enclosing is about.Why did he sent you this and what is this
has to do with Mandrake's need for money? Forgive me if I, sometimes, am
slowminded and don't understand some things.
i always kinda felt like buying every other box (and downloading the in
betweens) was a pretty fair deal, but i guess not enough do that. just
joined the club, and may have to consider a donation this year some time.
i knew they were behind on the profit/cost thing, but i assumed they would
: [newbie]
Mandrake's financial situation
Hello to you Richard
From what I have read visiting Mandrakes home page I understand that
they really are in trouble so I hurried and subscribe myself to the Mandrake
Users Club and intending to buy the new 8.2 Release to support them more.They
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 09:18 am, sda wrote:
That said I'd like to join the club, however each time I've tried
it asks for a credit card number and won't let me proceed without
entering one. I'm quite surprised that MandrakeSoft doesn't provide
for alternative methods of payment. I for one,
Regardless of the Free nature of things Linux; I bought the 8.1 Standard
Edition box as soon it was available here back in November. Before that I had
tried 7.1, 7.2, and Freq. Downloads. Since I decided to go exclusively {no
Windows at all for a year now.} I thought it only fair.
As to the
I would have been a Gold member if I could have had Mandrake charge by
the month instead of by the year
They should fix that So I can upgrade... ;)
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 01:45, Barran, Richard wrote:
Morning all,
I've received a very interesting Mandrake Community Newsletter this
shane wrote:
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 08:28, Tom Brinkman opened a hailing frequency and
transmitted:
Otherwise you'll probly end up runnin RedHat . maybe even worse,
M$ Linux paid for on a $ub$cription basis ;~
you really know how to scare a person, don't you? the thought of
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 12:39, PENA FAMILY opened a hailing frequency and
transmitted:
Still, though this is a bump in the road and don't see it
effecting Linux in the whole.
a good many people who are paid by companies like redhat, mandrake, and
suse, are paid to basically work for the
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 11:55 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote:
Can we become share holders in Mandrake with our
contribution/subscription? That will give some of us more
incentive.
Seedkum
Well, IMO, the incentive should be for preserving the best free
Linux distro going, both in a freedom
Hi ,
There is a simple alternative: PayPal
Don't know why every commercial Site doesn't have it
oh commercial. That is what Mandrake isn't is it? :-(
Everyone should use it - it stops the typical Bank ripoffs and anyone in
most countries CAN use it
http://www.paypal.com
What
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From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 08:28, Tom Brinkman opened a hailing frequency
and
transmitted:
Otherwise you'll probly
pay pal is also one of the most insecure methods of doing e-business so
I'm told by a business friend of mine.
True? No?
Femme
john rigby wrote:
Hi ,
There is a simple alternative: PayPal
Don't know why every commercial Site doesn't have it
oh commercial. That is what
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 09:58 pm, you wrote:
pay pal is also one of the most insecure methods of doing e-business so
I'm told by a business friend of mine.
True? No?
I vote False
--
Gerald Waugh
Connecticut USA
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Linux by the whole was not started by companies, but grew faster because of
them. This may slow progress, but won't stomp it out.
Then again Time is the ultimate judge.
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