on 10/31/00 6:47 AM, Guillaume Cottenceau at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Fuck it, now!!! What do you want me to say!??? Please read my previous
> explanations. If you think our commercial policy is real bad, please
> unsubscribe from any of our mailing lists and stop using Mandrake.
Great PR.
What you don't seem to understand, Guillaume, is that these people are
arguing the way they do BECAUSE they like Mandrake. In case you didn't
notice, but that majority of the argument is not consumers being pissed at
Mandrake for a shoddy marketing, but Mandrake users who are concerned about
the repercussion of this decision to Mandrake and their future credibility.
Don't you friggin' get a clue!?
Those (former) users who feel as you reccommend have already unsubscribed
and moved to another distro, or back to RedHat.
Of course, with this kind of understanding, and your rationalisations that
the decision was good, I am no longer surprised about the direction
Mandrakesoft is taking.
As was pointed out, if the box had been properly labeled, there would have
been ZERO issues with this - it's the misrepresentation of the product that
matters.
Apparently, though, you don't seem to be getting it. You should.
Harry
