On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:59:34 +1000 "john rigby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> > The very idea of charity is a repugnant thing when viewed intelligently. > Support aid is something else entirely. > But buying value............................!! Could you explain this a little more? <snip> > But, if Mandrake called in PayPals services and said: $10 for the lot > by download in bits. NO FREEBIES, it would work. I would never have downloaded and tried Mandrake if I had had to pay. I was not willing to pay anything to test it out. Now that it is my only OS at home, I will spring for a box set to get some documentation on paper (hopefully), and to support Mandrake in general. But that's just me. I'm sure your $10/copy scheme will rescue the company from all troubles. Why hasn't anybody ever thought of it before!!! Absolute genius! > (If it didn't the worst that would happen is only what *is* going to > happen...... another nice company bites the dust, sooner or later.) > Shops could still sell the Full Boxes. > Nobody should be able to get the full commercial Server system without > being FINANCIALLY competent enough to spring say, even $100. Seen M$ > Prices for a Server???? Ah, well, if John Rigby says a server system should cost at least $100, and that a person who cannot pay that sum has absolutely no right to possess a server, well, yes of course, by all means. This world scares you, doesn't it John? Wait--I feel like breaking into song-- Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin'. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'. (I hope the young whipper-snappers out there still listen to Bobby D) <snip> Yadda yadda, sigh, humpf. -- Todd Slater We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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