[oclug] Mandrake 8.2 FYI

[Ross Jordan]

> 
> On Monday 18 March 2002 05:39 pm, Greg Sarsons wrote:
> > For those of you that are interested you can now download Mandrake 8.2.
> > I'm pulling it down from spheniscus.uninett.no at 115KB/s ... not a bad
> > speed for my istop.com dsl connection.
> >
> > 
> 
> Or better still, wait a couple of weeks and, if you can afford to, buy 
> it.  Many Free/OSS projects need our money as well as our advocacy if 
> they are to survive.  Mandrake in particular is asking its users to buy 
> their box distro and/or join the Mandrake Club.  Among the popular 
> distros, Mandrake has been very committed to making their own projects -- 
> such as DiskDrake -- Free/OSS; they also employ developers to contribute 
> to the KDE project.  And they need to pay the rent, as do we all.
Though this brings up an interesting question.
What is the _best_ way to contribute?
Surely Mandrake only receives a fraction of the boxed purchase price.
But do stores and middle men carrying Linux software deserve some money
too?
Would a donation to Mandrake (or Mandrake club) be a better use of
money? What about direct payment to a developer of some project you
particularly like. Order them a pizza?
Obviously something is better than nothing, but one might as well
maximize its value.

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