-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 October 7, 2003 09:03 am, Aron Smith wrote: [..] > > actually I do, no need to be mean.
Not being mean, stating a fact. For more additional software than you can shake a goat at add the contrib tree to the urpmi sources. Just remember that the contrib apps are unsupported. Speaking of which there's also the unsupported tree. > > >Does anybody else think developers should work for free? Or that > > > MandrakeSoft should be a non-profit company? > > > > I never said that ... I just would like it if they found way of making > > profit while still sharing the distro for free & earn money of other > > aspects. That was tried and the company has spent this year in the French equivalent of Chapter 11. Concentration on the core business is required, the core is (or should always be IMHO) the Mandrake Linux distribution. It's hard to convince people to spend money to support the developers that make this possible when the "Latest and Greatest" edition of the operating system is available as a free download before paying customers receive their copy they bought. > > >Take a swing at Debian or Slack or Gentoo or Sorceror if you want free. > > > Or use the free download version of Mandrake Linux and package all of > > > the additional software you want from source. Or download the source > > > code for the software you want, learn how, and build your own > > > distribution. > > > > > >Or if you're truly that impressed with Mandrake Linux, do as Greg > > > posted, and buy a box set or one of the "disk only" sets. > > > > > >As with all Open Source Software the choices are yours. > > Don't forget to give your 9.1 distro to some one who wishes to escape > the evil empire > I always donate previous box sets, either to the public library or someone that has expressed enough interest to try and use the download edition. Free Download editions are always passed along to utter newbies, and are installed on every system i assemble for anyone. If they won't pay for a Windows license that's what they get to use as an OS. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 11:28:33 up 17 days, 50 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.13 People say I live in my own little fantasy world... well, at least they *know* me there! -- D.L. Roth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/gvnKG11CaRuZZSIRAkPIAJ9XOK4DYphpYmEnELpK0FHsBXn7sACePJGq Iy8+3IMrnCUqvZhqiPKIJgg= =8kgm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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