Re: [expert] ANNOUNCE: MacMillan & Mandrake good or evil? on forum

[Andrew George]

I live in Australia,
What I've seen is the large stores carry the McMillan edition, and smaller
stores and Linux Mail Order places carry the either the McMillan version
or the Mandrakesoft version depending on who their distributer is

Andrew


On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Philomena wrote:

> I looked through the archives and found a posted press release from 
> 6/8/2000 where MacMillan announced that they will be the exclusive 
> distributor of the english version of Mandrake in the US, UK, Canada, 
> India, South Africa, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Australia and Indonesia. I 
> guess Mandrake will still market themselves in other countries not listed 
> in the announcement.
> 
> philomena
> 
> At 05:02 PM 7/19/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Philomena wrote:
> > >
> > > MacMillan is the company that exclusively markets/sells the commercial
> > > Mandrake distribution that you would purchase that has all the extra  CDs
> > > and the book.
> >
> >. . . in America, right?  In Europe doesn't Mandrake market their own?
> >
> > >
> > > philomena
> > >
> 
>