I think if mandrake had any sense.. they would have a staff member or two lurk on this list to get a sense of what their users are feeling... (since they are the ones being begged to join the club.)
but they fact that they don't is a sad example of companies today.. simple matter of the fact is they don't really care what newbies think anyway.. the thing is, alot of the people on this list are NOT newbies.. I don't know everything, but i started with linux back with redhat 4 ... and tried every distro in between... and there are others here that know far more then me.... Its a shame that our voice is totally ignored except by other users.. This list (and expert) is the single biggest selling point of mandrake... yet they ignore it.. and don't advertise it... which is a shame.. I bet more problems get solved here then in any of their support sites. rgds Frannki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Myers Sent: Monday, 23 December 2002 7:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital On Sunday 22 December 2002 04:39 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 11:15 AM 12/22/2002 +0000, you wrote: > >My solution - I don't have one. Crashtesters was IMHO a valuable effort > >but in > >these financially difficult times Mandrake are damned if they spend money > > on this sort of exercise and damned if they don't. > > To add an addendum to this: I had been invited to join that list. I > lasted 4 weeks, and it was just as Civilme was leaving. The vacuum left by > him meant the list did not (AFAIK) survive. No one picked up the ball > IIRC. So the list died & the testers went back to the normal lists like > this one. I left due to time constraints & I was in over my head a bit b/c > I had not been able to follow the list over a period of time to see what > they were doing. > > Just an FYI as I understand that situation. > > ------------- > FemmeFatale > > Good Decisions You boss Made: > "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that > character from Peanuts." > > - Source: Dilbert Not quit dead, the mail service still works and there are a handful of us trying to accomplish something on our own. Without direction though it is pretty hit or miss. Deno checks on us now and then so some of the testing was picked up on the last 7 go arounds. That was the longest and best beta and rc run yet so I am suprised some folks are still having problems. Never the less Mr. Brinkman's add on YMMV is oh so true. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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