On August 10, 2005 18:39, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > et wrote: > >>> heavily snipped > > > > seems like if I had any say in marketing this distro, I would have > > insisted upon keeping a redirect link on the mandrakeclub.com site... > > et: > Point well taken. I just tried www.mandrake.com, and got the same > Verisign intercept that you did. I don't know what it would cost to > maintain the old Mandrake site addresses for another year or so, but it > seems like a false economy in view of all of the web pages out there > that still link to the Mandrake sites. > > -- cmg
>From what I've heard, they've been involved in a lengthy lawsuit over the name "Mandrake", launched by the publishers of the "Mandrake the Magician" comic strip. Getting out of that was part of the rationale for the name change. To do so, they need to drop the name altogether. Otherwise, they probably would have kept the old sites around (or maybe wouldn't have bothered with the name change at all). -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. "As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess." - Red Green
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