On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Jason Straight wrote:
> Shouldn't Mandrake be able to say, "Hey that's not really
> 7.2 - it's a friggin beta! So don't put 7.2 on the package."
IMHO this has been an issue since Macmillan put out Mandrake 6.1 as
'Complete Linux 6.5' (or whatever they called it). A lot of people seemed
to have problems with installing/maintaining this release, and thought it
was Mandrakes fault even though a lot of the broken stuff seemed to
have been introduced by Macmillan. I think there may be a problem here if
Mandrake loses control over the distros published by Macmillan with
Mandrake written on the box. It sounds like Macmillan may have published a
pre-release version of Mandrake 7.2.
> I think Mandrake should insist that MCP sends out big red stickers to put on
> the front of the boxes stating that this is not 7.2 final but a release
> candidate. MCP is misrepresenting Mandrake on this and makes Mandrake look
> bad, I will be deterring people from buying Mandrake from Wal-Mart here and
> instead will gladly hand out the ISO's I made from the 7.2 tree. And that's
> not going to help Mandrake pay any paychecks.
I agree with you entirely, but I have no idea of the details of the
contract between Macmillan and Mandrake. What sort of power does Mandrake
have over Macmillan for this?
> This doesn't explain the changed installation procedure though either, I
> realized it's aimed at newbies but surely Mandrake made this install not
> MCP?!?!
Yeah, the posts I've read about this made it seem this way.
Hope that Mandrake (IMHO the best Linux distro available at the
moment) doesn't get drawn into some evil licensing deal with Macmillan
that makes it impossible to put out a good distro....
