on 11/19/00 9:25 PM, Ron Stodden at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In your situation, I would take it back and get your $32 back. Then
> download or buy the REAL Mandrake 7.2
Well, I certainly will try to return it, albeit the issue with returning
opened software boxes is a tricky one... Either way, this, of course, begs
the question:
What *IS* the 'real' Mandrake 7.2?
The box states 'Linux-Mandrake 7.2 complete'. It's published by MacMillan
(MandrakeSoft's US distributor). You can't get any more 'real' than that, at
least by appearance.
Seeing as how Mandrake whines on about how they have to make money to pay
for their salaries (a legitimate concern) I figured that $32 isn't going to
break me, and that at least I'd be contributing a bit. I made sure that this
was not the WalMart version, and figured I would therefore be 'safe'.
After all, if I were to download Mandrake, I would spend no money, but
neither would Mandrake earn any. Buy the 'real' Mandrake? Would the real
Mandrake please stand up?
I'm certainly not going to risk and additional $79.95 on another
'experiment, only to find out that this is an incomplete release version as
well. Besides, I stopped purchasing RedHat when they jacked their prices up
in the $79.95 range, so if I'm going to spend that kind of money, I'm going
to buy RedHat - at least their distro works.
So, what to do?
> Yes, the promotion is misleading (or worse) to an experienced
> Mandrake User
Yeah, seeing as how I'm not the only one having versioning problems, I'd say
that's about accurate. Seeing as how Mandrake's attitude appears to be that
most users who have this problem are either stpid or lazy, I don't see that
changing soon.
> (probably none of which are to be found in Macmillan,
> WalMart, Mandrake(?) marketing).
Apparently, the one constant in the Universe are marketing people - just
like in the US, if you prove incompetent at much else, you go to marketing.
Harry
