Well, nice start for a Wednesday morning, mailbox full of shity
emails from *not very nice so called disatisfied* customer and
frankly I am disgusted by their behaviour.
Ok, the final 7.2 version you bought is missing some updates
present in the downloadable version and you think you are
screwed... fair enough but why so much anger towards the guys
at Mdk?
What is so difficult in using Mdk-update to get your installation
updated with the packages from the Mdk 7.2 download edition?
Do you need a university degree to do that? Does it ruin your
day because you have to download a few megabytes of data?
What is your pbm?
The guys at Mandrake go out of their way to provide everybody
with a great linux distro, they listen to all of us when we
bitch about packages missing or when we ask them to package
more programs and so on. And you know what, they do it because
they're a nice bunch of developers dedicated to linux and its
success.
As a matter of fact, they also need to bring the bacon back
home so to speak and for that very valid reason they also
need to make money and sell their stuff.
(something else I want to point out is that it seems to me
that more and more people see the *free software* as *free
beer* not *free speech* and I am worried about that,
anyway that's not the point here...)
We all would like to pay a dirt cheap price for the perfect
product, bug free that does everything and more with free
support... but that does not exist even in the Linux world.
The pbm is mandrakesoft is a victim of its openness, they
tell us to much and we still bitch about it. Not so long
ago we bitched about M$ for not telling us anything, like
"we put alpha quality software in our windows crap".
We put updates whenever it pleases us and we do not care
if our product is full of fucking security holes! And we
charge you an arm and a leg for all that crap!
How on earth can you come even remotely close to comparing
Mandrakesoft to M$?!?!?
You're upset? Ok, calm down, get a cup of coffee then try
to rationalize your situation... then click on the
"Mandrake Update" icon... then just come back on this list
and tell everybody how great this distro is 8-)
I hope good decisions will come out of this minor (?)
tragedy and that lessons will be learned for the future.
Linux distro will always be more up-to-date by downloading
them instead of buying a packaged version for the simple
reason the work to do to put a downloadable version is so
much simpler than for a retail version. That's a fact, just
accept it.
OK, now I need to think about some serious business which
is to find a ftp site to download 7.2 :-) can't wait.
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The idea about being able to give a donation online to support
Mandrakesoft is a great idea. I would definitely be willing to
give some money for a download version.
Also keep up the superb work you have doing so far. Maybe just
make sure next year you do not plan a release too close to the
Walmart deadline :-)
Fred "very happy to use whatever flavor of Mandrake distro"
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