a photocopy! wow..you must of gotten the dulx edition...mine was on
masking tape on the back of the jewel case :-)
~kurth
Kurth Bemis wrote:
> 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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