[oclug] Mandrake 8.2 FYI

[Paul Godin]

I joined the Linux Fan club, $5.00 a month is cheap and you get some
stuff for download. But it's my way to support them. 

Paul Godin


On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 19:04, Ross Jordan wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Comments?
> 
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