Quoting Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 09:55, Michael Halcrow wrote: > > Looks like Mandrake may become the NetZero of the GNU/Linux > > distro's... > > And RedHat's installer isn't full of advertising for all RedHat's > non-free products and services? Comparing Mandrake to NetZero is a bit > premature (though I did use netzero back when the adds weren't too > obnoxious and they really did give you decent dial-up service for free, > if not Free). If it costs the two companies some money to produce a > more user friendly version of Linux (as opposed to say, Debian, or the > new Stallman favorite GNU/Linex) then let them recover those costs in a > not-too-annoying manner. I love watching TV and listening to the radio > and letting advertisers pick up the cost. Most websites have banner > adds to help them re-coup the costs of operation[1] so they can provide > me with some awesome free services. As long as it doesn't get too > annoying I don't mind a few adds at all. Please don't act like this is > some act of heresy that has tainted Mandrake and branded them unworthy > of the GNU forever (freakin' high and mighty saints of the Church of > Emacs :).
Well said my Mandrake using friend. They stress it won't be intrusive, and I'm more inclined to believe Mandrake than other software makers on that statement. Plus based on the information, it won't be like Microsoft or Nigeria or Pr0n can just purchase a bookmark in the default Mozilla install. "Our advertizing plan is only offered to MandrakeSoft partners - we select only ads that make sense as complementary Linux solutions." Besides, when it comes to a new install, I just write over the default bookmarks with my own before I even see what the default ones are. And I'll take a few ads to get Mandrake's KDE over Red Hat's broken version any day. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
