Todd Lyons wrote: > Buchan Milne wrote on Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:06:13PM +0200 : > >>For example: >>"Finally, Mandrake has produced MNF and appears to be hinting that they >>will be charging for security updates for it. That's right folks. They >>will be charging you for updates to a firewall. This is exactly the type >>"security for sale" policy that Vincent complained about on his website >>with regards to ISC's BIND (the DNS server that most everyone runs). Yet >>here is Mandrake engaging in it. This is terribly unfortunate. Attempts >>to clarify this issue were simply ignored." > > > I can't tell if you were quoting here or not.
I was quoting ben's rant, which you can read at http://ben.reser.org > The correct answer is > that the updates are freely available to be used with urpmi from the > CLI, but if you want to use the flashy gui interface, that's the part > that costs. Who wants a gui interface when I can put a two-command entry into cron and forget about it ... which is another challenge for Mandrakesoft marketing. I would like to pay for MNF, but not at $2000 (none of my clients would afford that). Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
