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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