On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 08 November 2003 01:41 pm, Aronsmith wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 09:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > http://www.HImandrake.com/cd_distribution.php > > > There was a big discussion in the Club forums about whether these guys are > really partners of MandrakeSoft or whether they are just being sleazy and > trying to make it look like they are. None of there agreements list > Mandrakesoft as a actual signatory, although the descriptions represent that > they are authorizing all of this. > > The discussion on the Club started because some guy that was selling the > download edition on e-bay got his auctions yanked because himandrake > represented themselves to ebay as the owner of the mandrake trademarks and > copyrights. If this is a US based partner of MandrakeSoft that is enforcing > an exclusive agreement, fine, but they could also be a sleazy outfit that is > trying to profit off of Mandrake's good name. > > I am more inclined to think the latter because I don't see anywhere on the > himandrake site where they state they are an official partner, and every > place where they might say so, it refers only to himandrake or Heavy > Industrial and there are no links to the MandrakeSoft or linux-mandrake > websites. >
It's my understanding that we are partnered with this company. You'll probably get a more detailed response on Monday, but I thought I'd at least pass that on so things don't spiral out of control over the weekend. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
