On Fri Sep 12, 2003 at 04:02:47PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > What on God's green earth makes you think MandrakeSoft would ever stoop to > > > > something like this? > > > > > > > > We do have principles you know. > > > > > > The question was how I could imagine that it would be noticed. Not a > > > suggestion that it would be done. > > > > I would have answered: they have no way of noticing unless they had a public > > poll and asked you. > > > > Just mentioning data mining will stir the pot enough that people will start > > flipping out and tomorrow we'll see a /. post about how we're data mining as > > well as removing all screensavers and replacing them with ads. > > > > /me shudders > > Point taken. Downside, We will get asked. Double downside. It's > already on slashdot (before I even posted the first post in the thread) > and This question is already being asked. Not by me. But it is rearing > it's ugly head. I still think trying to get boxed sets in stores next > to SuSE and RedHat is a better way to generate income. But that just my > opinion. Especially if they sold the disk only set this way.
Well, yes... it's important and it would just plain old be nice. With 9.1 we had some issues with our distributor in the US that caused some problems. With 9.2, it should be better (but I can only make that a personal observation; I'm not in any way involved in that end of the product). I really don't see what the big deal is tho. The installer won't be plastered with ads, and I don't think the text installer will be going anywhere (it's proven to be too valuable for certain types of installs). Anyways, you guys can be asked but that doesn't mean you have to answer. So it isn't really a downside. It's not like we can say "if you don't answer the question, and honestly, you're not allowed to use Mandrake anymore". =) -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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