On Sunday 22 December 2002 03:09, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Saturday 21 December 2002 12:17 am, you wrote: > > Mandrake got slashdotted today, I just saw the article, then I saw an > > email from the Mandrake team. > > > > http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/20/1815214.shtml?tid=147 > > > > I also read > > > > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/future.php3 > > > > After reading that, and considering how much Mandrake linux has come to > > mean to me, I've decided to upgrade my membership. I was wondering, how > > many peeps here are going to either join the Mandrake club or upgrade > > their membership? I'm just curious, and was looking for a show of hands. > > ?? > > > > --LX > > Well, I'm already a club member, and just renewed. I don't know about > upgrading...
I'm in a similar position: just renewed my silver membership and already payed for the boxed sets up to 9.1. That would only leave the stockmarket shares as an option. That'll take some thinking through though, in my case. As about the "begging"; Considering the bad economic climate and the prognoses for the coming year, Mandrake's strict embracement of the free software community's ideals (including the way they do business) and the upcoming expected 'downshake' in the Linux world they are quite right at 'grabbing the moment' (carpe diem). Where else should they be asking for support, but in the community from which they came and have never turned their back on. I don't about the rest of the folks but I'm certainly keeping a tighter hold on my wallet than I did a year ago. Coming 2003 I'm expecting to have to set my priorities who (there's more than just Mandrake out there!) I support and who I don't anymore. Believe me Mandrake is no.1 on that list as thé distro that can compete with the M$-desktop without losing integrity. Distribs like Debian and newcomer Gentoo are good but not for "converting desktop-users". Redhat could do that but my fears are that if only Redhat survived the shakedown, they would only grow at the cost of Sun/unix market-share and thus kill off a lot of open-source software like Open-officeOrg and Mozilla in the long run. The same goes for United Linux IMHO. So actually IMHO we don't have much of a choice but to keep Mandrake alive and kicking if we want to keep diversity on our desktops and nibble at M$'s market-share. Just my 0,02€ worth, HarM
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