true - however have you seen this distro package? i don't think that
theres much of a manual in there.....in any event - what are they
(users) going to say when they buy it...install it...wipe thier windows
drive......and then complain to ppl like us ( LUGs ). that often leaves
a bad taste in ppl's mouths.....then you get coments like "linux
sux...it destroyed my whole harddrive" linux was and is a programmers
os..its moving toward the desktop...but i have a feeling that distros
like debian are going to start getting a lot more popular with the "old
school" linux users....see where i'm going with this?
thanks for the poke.....get my boilers rolling :-)
~kurth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
>
>
> Heh - Just a sign of mainstreaming. A good thing, eh? What we should now
> hope for is Star Office or a Quake for Linux appearing onthe shelves next
> to the Linux releases!
>
> And the money, just like publishing a book ( the manual ). these guys
> gotta make a buck somewhere, and selling an informative starter manual
> with a disk included is a decent way to do things. Looked at the manual
> that comes with a Windows CD? Might as well be a single sheet photocopy of
> the license number :)
>
> Can't resist to poke you once in a while, Kurth!
>
>
>
>> i sure you all know of all know of wall mart. who dosen't. i saw
>> something on slash dot
>> (http://www.slashdot.org/features/00/11/02/2324224.shtml) that prompted
>> meto take a trip to my local wal-mart. sure enough there was mandrake
>> 7.2 sitting on the shelf next to winME and MS Plus. what is going on
>> here? is linux going the same way as windows? brainless users who just
>> know "ok" and "cancel" (keep your snide remarks to yourself about my
>> goof up :-))
>>
>> on the other side of this tho....can we talk to macmillian and maybe get
>> the ok to put some sort of propaganda in or on the packages? so that
>> the user (should they buy it) can have some sort of support?
>>
>> one last thing....i don't mind buying the latest redhack for 99
>> bucks......it all goes to redhat.....that mandrake goes for 50...isn't
>> linux suppoused to be free or next to nothing? how much of that 50 goes
>> back to mandrake? i'd beintrested to know.
>>
>> ~kurth
>>
>
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