-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 Nov 2004 20:42, Habib Seifzadeh wrote: > > There are a number of sources to buy Mandrake on > > disks at *very* low cost. > > Which country are you? There's a good chance that > > someone can point you to a > > suitable source. > > Hi again, > I'm persian. in IRAN, there are lots of stores which > sell mandrake but I was afraid because of I thoght > rpms will not be free. > Some of companies do something that it sounds their > products will not be free in future, for example, SuSE > don't provide any iso images. > What's your opinion? > Regards, > Habib > It would be a good idea to find a copy of the GPL and read it. It will reassure you a lot.
The main part of a Mandrake distribution is totally free, and buying those disks will be perfectly legitimate. Those who buy the PowerPack are paying quite a lot more for the right to use certain commercial packages, but you many not need any of those. Hope that helps. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBoQJckFAvMr/nNX8RAtKbAJ9sekn7bUYxckrjyfpb/blPbEkh4QCfb4FY weUUdiY5lvmuy+pmAz9YVfQ= =dsQF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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