On Sunday 17 March 2002 19:53, Todd Slater opened a hailing frequency and 
transmitted:

> > 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,

yea verily sing praises and pass the plate brother!

i like suse almost as much as mandrake, but i loaded it once, and will 
never do so again.  damn difficult ftp installer rather than ISO's!  and it 
is still free, just harder to get to.  that cost them a customer.  i do not 
buy cars without test drives,  do not buy CD's until i have heard at least 
half the songs on them, and will not buy an OS i can't try first.  BUT, i 
happily buy cars i like after i try them, buy all the CD's from artists 
whos MP3's i file swaped and like enough to keep on my drive, and give lots 
of money to my favorite OS.

i think those who can not understand the mentality of the linux community, 
and expect them to pay for nothing, will not last long.  those who do 
understand will get paid if they build a good product.  call me polyanna.

> (I hope the young whipper-snappers out there still listen to Bobby D)

does 30 something make me a whipper snapper or an old goat?  i can never 
recall...........  but i listen from time to time.

-- 
"When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare 
at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'." - 
Linus Torvalds

shane
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