One of the best features of Linux is that it offers infinite number of
choices. You don't like paid system, there are tons of free news groups
or Linux clubs.
The main problem right now, of course and I am sure you're very much
aware, is that Linux is moving so fast, it is difficult to find someone
who knows answer to your question. That's why we are sticking together,
trying to collectively build a knowledge base.
Warren will love you a lot more if you announce your secret plan of
inviting LUAU members to your Denver house for a free (yes, FREE) ski
vacation.
Just kidding.
wayne
Joe Linux wrote:
In the past any question I submitted to the Mandrake Experts, they
couldn't answer. Anyway I think a list like this is far superior. I
wouldn't hesitate to join Mandrake's "Club" but for myself I won't be
using their paid experts. Wayne we are just individual computer
users, not corporations. If you want support, I would say the best
bet would be to buy the boxed set where installation support is a part
of it. I didn't ask Mandrake or anyone else to go into the Linux
business. It was their own choice. They are the ones that put their
stuff on the web for free download and so forth. This is a users' group.
Ever since the Commodore 64 users groups have been helping users for
free. In fact one of the best user clubs ever was right here in
Hawaii and it met at the Kaimuki Library. It was run by a guy named
"Zarf." He was s computer specialist who worked at Hickam. Later on
after Commodore had died, I had his daughter in my classroom. Does
anyone else remember Zarf and his wonderful Commodore 64 sessions?
Speaking of Commodore, I used one for several years and was able to
get as much productive work out of it as these bloated modern
machines. There was a Word Processor for Commodore called Paper Clip.
It was one of the most elegant programs ever written, It was all in
machine language and ran in 64k and was actually more versatile than
Word Perfect at the time. I had to hound WordPerfect for several
years to get them to put in some of the same features that Commodore's
PaperClip had. The only reason I stopped using it was that it wasn't
available for DOS.
And did you know Wayne, I in a way designed how WordPefect's data base
sorts. The way it works today is exactly how I suggested to them that
it should work which is different from the way it was originally. WP
used my ideas, but I never got paid by them.
W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
On the MandrakeExpert issue, 85% of the fees go to those qualified
"experts". A "Mandrake expert" starts out by giving "free" advices,
then when his/her knowledge is recognized by the community to have
reached a certain level, s/he will start getting paid.
We have to learn that sometimes, or most of time for Windows users,
we need to pay to have our questions answered. Mandrake has a
MandrakeExpert, where you can pay to have your questions answered.)
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