On Wed Jan 15, 2003 at 11:59:24AM -0800, T E wrote:

> OK I guess this clears some of the confusion... Still
> wonder why MDK left it so vague though.  And you know
> the funny thing?  Click on the "register your
> firewall" when you first enter the MNF box and you're
> directed to 
> 
> "The page /products/mnf/register you are looking for
> is missing"

Yeah, I discovered this as well.  This will be corrected quickly, from
my understanding, but I'm not directly involved with it.  I hope to see
something there in the coming week.

> Then again, they are having a few internal problems. 
> And while we're on the topic, does Chapter 11 affect
> updates from mdk at all?  Or is it nearly entirely
> based upon the open source community?

Not sure what you mean.  Does the community make updated rpm packages
for Mandrake?  No.  Are patches and whatnot available to the open
source community at large?  Sure is.  You can grab RH's packages,
figure out what patches were applied, and then try to apply them to
your mdk packages and back-port as appropriate.  Or build the new
software from source yourself.

There is nothing binding you to using mandrake updates if you really
don't want to.

> Now that I know that free updates are possible from a
> license stand point, I'd hate to find out they aren't
> feasible with the "new" company model...

What "new" company model might that be?  I'm afraid I don't know what
you're insinuating here.

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