"francesco.melo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have dvd-r burner ... so for me and i think for other user it is > better to have a single big iso in the mirror > and burn it in a dvd-+r .. > > is it possible?
Yes. It is possible. But is it interesting for Mandrakesoft? You can do it by yourself, moreover, it is quite simple. The great idea behind our economical model, is that we let for free what we are doing, although we still need to eat, to pay our rents, and even sometimes to get some holidays (this is not necessary for a man to survive, I accept, except maybe regarding gc and snowboard, but it is another story). And users who use it, or like it, can contribute back to mandrake buying a box, subscribing to mandrakeclub, helping a lot on cooker, advocating, pressuring other people to use it, sending food to developers (warning no more nuts, this makes them become fat and inefficient), or whatever. Theoretically this model is ideal. Everyone can try or product for a very little price, either downloading it or finding it in magazine, and contribute what he can afford, or what he thinks that worths. Mandrakelinux 9.0 DVD edition is 60 euros on Mandrakestore. 60 euros! It is so expensive! I can just download the images and burn them on a 10 euros blank DVD! Yes. But what will we earn if I put a DVD image on the mirrors? - You will be happy - You will pay 10 euros for a blank DVD. Most of it go to mitsui or Taiyo Yuden, and if you are in France you even pay some taxes that will go to film or music majors, or even microsoft. Of course we get nothing from these taxes are our products are free. - You have alreay payed 500 euros to sony or yamaha or pioneer for your burner. So the only point for me will be point 1, point 2 and 3 will just made microsoft, sony, vivendi even more powerful, and make our work even harder. I do not care if you are copying tens for divx films and mp3 and windows games and whatever. After all if Mandrakesoft dies it is just that we were not strong enough, or not intelligent enough. Because we did not work as hard as we should, or we were payed to much, or we were too many... Why have you bought a DVD burner for? I could not blame you, I did the same with my first CD burner. Part of the gnu/linux success is because it is free, and because people can get and use it for free. In our world we can get nearly everything with money, and we think that just everything can be compared in terms of dollars or euros. And in this world, gnu/linux distributions are just a good bargain. But it may exists another world where money is not so important, and where you pay with time, with helping others, with not thinking selfishly. In this world, gnu/linux is not free, it is even more expensive than whatever you can afford with money, because it need _you_ to think and act in another way. The world will not change if we do not first change ourselves. -- Warly
