-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le Jeudi 23 Janvier 2003 23:39, J. Greenlees a �crit : > Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 22:19, J. Greenlees wrote: > >>Visa Canada doesn't offer the debit card services here. might be > >>Canadian Banking laws stop them. > >>in the US Amex has a debit card, where you deposit money into special > >>Amex held account and use the card as a credit card, online only. ( it > >>functions as debit, but processes as credit card ) > >> > >>in canada, debit is only from the bank card not from a credit card > >> company. > > > > I should clarify - VISA and Switch just provide card processing services > > to the banks. I say my card is a VISA card, but it's not an account run > > by VISA, just as your credit card isn't actually run by VISA. The > > account is held at a normal bank, who (I guess) pay VISA to provide the > > card for them. > > same here, but if is has a credit card company logo on it then it's a > credit card, not a debit card here. > > but with the costs for use of debit cards, even if Mandrake store could > process them, it still costs more to use the online store. > > and lets face one simple fact, people will not download and install > mandrake, or buy it online, unless they are already mandrake users. the > only way to get the new, ex-windows, users is to be on the shelf in > local retail outlets, where people can see them and pick the box up on > impulse.
Main for business bad behaviour : MANDRAKE owners are blind, they looks to refute that the distro out of the local retail outlet is a dreadful mistake. Should that distro be avalable on local retail, should they will save LM. I like LM, but why LM owners are holding me under the ransom of banks ? As probably some other peoples, for my freedom an life style, I am resistant to the use of bank card with full e-business. Pascal LACROIX - -- GPG Public Key available at http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+MlRnkEN5g66hPygRAuN6AJ9vonLti+AIUAhgCq2PkTTQmLUn5wCfT7x7 sLJFe320nOupSwIh8sczc1A= =2JOL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
