On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:55, Michael Halcrow wrote: > Looks like Mandrake may become the NetZero of the GNU/Linux > distro's...
And RedHat's installer isn't full of advertising for all RedHat's non-free products and services? Comparing Mandrake to NetZero is a bit premature (though I did use netzero back when the adds weren't too obnoxious and they really did give you decent dial-up service for free, if not Free). If it costs the two companies some money to produce a more user friendly version of Linux (as opposed to say, Debian, or the new Stallman favorite GNU/Linex) then let them recover those costs in a not-too-annoying manner. I love watching TV and listening to the radio and letting advertisers pick up the cost. Most websites have banner adds to help them re-coup the costs of operation[1] so they can provide me with some awesome free services. As long as it doesn't get too annoying I don't mind a few adds at all. Please don't act like this is some act of heresy that has tainted Mandrake and branded them unworthy of the GNU forever (freakin' high and mighty saints of the Church of Emacs :). Bryan 1. To name a few, sourceforge, slashdot, debian.org has a little "visit the site sponser" add, www.kernel.org has little adds for transmenta, hp, and a couple others. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
