On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 12:40, ed tharp wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 05:08, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:40, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > T. Ribbrock schrieb am Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:58:59 +0200: <snip> > > If I pay a subscription fee for those channels, the commercials are not > > acceptable. I do not think I should pay to be forced to watch > > commercials. > I guess you don't get cable and have never seen discovery channel, cause > they sure are a fee-subscription service, and they sure have some > commercials. >
I know such channels exist (although not in my country, here the paid channels only have commercials for their own broadcasts, and they do not interrupt movies/programs form them). What I am saying is that I would not pay for such a channel if it existed here, while I would be inclined to pay for an ad-free movie channel. > > So, if I pay for my boxed Mandrake distro, it should not contain ads. > always did before, just adds for Mandrake services not 3rd party > services. seems to me RH puts a LOT of adds for RH inc. in their distro > too... > Possible, but I don't use RH... > > Now, in all fairness, it is the right of Mandrake as a company to do > > this, but it is also the right of their users to switch distro if they > > don't like this. > sure, no one is begging you to stay a "loyal MDK freeloader", just > debating if your reasoning is sincere. > > As I stated (and others did so too), I protest ads in the *boxed* version. The download edition is something else. I'm only on my second MDK release so far. But I dropped SuSE after buying *every* major release for 5 years because they became too commercial for my taste. > > >> > > Now, in a perfect world, Linux (and others) would be developped by > > non-commercial institutions with government funding. > I DO NOT want any governmental involvement, and the smaller the better. > > > It would be > > completely free of commercial influences. > > I doubt _anything_ in the US government is free of "commercial > influences", and that goes for all 50 state governments and all county > governments too... > Possibly, but Mandrake is not in the US, an neither am I. I am not saying the time and circumstances are right for this now, but in a perfect world, free software should be safeguarded against commercial interference. It should be government funded, yet not government controlled (I don't trust politicians any more than I trust corporate drones). > my suggestion to you would be to stick with free BSD, and any of the > stuff you use with any company backing them, delete it right away. > I did not state that company backing in this day and age turns me of a system. Although I do not like it, it is the way the world works right now and I can't change that. I am not going of Mandrake immediately (if ever), I will wait and see how things progress. If it stays with the ads in the announced form it is still acceptable (yet I regret it came to this).
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