On Thursday 16 January 2003 16:17, Jonathan I. Nori wrote: >snip< > What do the rest of you think? > > Jon 8^)
I think the idea is interesting, but personally I wouldn't toddle along with Mandrake in a construction like that. I think we have to get some things in perspective her IMHO: Mandrake is a commercial distribution of gnu/linux built on free software made available by the free software community. If they (mandrake-soft) don't make it, it'll be a shame and a loss but not a disaster. Gnu/linux will go on as before and probably the Mandrake distribution will (the king is dead, long live the king!) too. I think their current business-model is viable as they (mandrakesoft) state themselves. It's the 'old' debts preventing it to take off as it could, BUT: I don't need or want to 'bleed' for wrong decisions made by someone else in the past, on issues I never had any influence on anyway. Over here we say: "If you burn your butt, learn to sit on blisters!". Mandrake is the best distrib around (IMHO again) staying close to the free software community spirit and contributing back to that same community in a wonderful way. I respect and love them for it. I for one am quite prepared to support Mandrake financially(I allready do), or in other ways if need be but I'm not going to become a business asset of any commercial enterprise however sympathetic. Good luck, HarM
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