On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 17:56, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Friday 12 September 2003 03:04 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > > Ya'll read... Ya'll decide. > > > > Conversation is on pclinux. probably best to keep it there. > > > > http://www.mandrakesoft.com/partners/advertising > > > > http://pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7702 > > > > For the discussion please go to the second link... > > > > James > > James: > You really stirred it up this time. Good job! Since all of the hullabaloo > began (./, PCLO, the Club, here and other places), Mandrake has issued a > clarification at http://www1.mandrakelinux.com/en/mdkads.php3 > > IMHO, I'd prefer not to have the ads, but if they help to get Mandrake's head > above the water, it's worth a try. I'll try hard not to think about the image > of the camel's head poking under the edge of the tent. > > i'm looking forward to the inevitable ZDNet article. The reader responses > there do wonders for my self esteem -- most of them seem to be from people > who have been judged to be too crude and too stupid to appear on Jerry > Springer. > > -- cmg
The old story of any news is good news. I do think that admw over in cooker (I didn't start that thread *grin*) has a valid point. Mandrake should state what they won't do, as well as what they will. Personally I don't think the people at MDK would ever allow any kind of spyware or data mining of individual users. I'd love it if they would come right out and say that. Next nice thing. MDK and 9.2 are hitting the front pages. YIPPEE No more "Aren't they dead." questions. Now if I can just get the funds together to setup a boxed set distro channel. (Oh and it's also going to take a bit of learning just what the heck that entails *grin* don't think it will happen.) I'd love to have the boxes on the shelves. Either that or I could get lucky enough to convince someone to let me assemble a book called "Managing Desktop Linux with URPMI" and include a 3 disk set, of 9.2. 2 things have got to go to the forefront. Mandrakes commitment to GPL, and URPMI. Sorry Debian users. I've used and like apt-get. But URPMI is much, much, better control. James
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