Tim Spalding wrote:
>
> Smitty wrote:
>
> >> Tim Spalding wrote:
> >> Mandrake has had RPMs on their cooker sites for a little while now. I haven't
> >> tried any yet, though. At this rate, I'm probably going to wait for Mandrake 8
> >> to go gold, download the ISO images, and either upgrade or install fresh.
> >>
> >> ftp://ftp.twoguys.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS
> >> is a good, fast location to grab newer Mandrake packages from.
> >
> >
> > How about purchasing the distribution and help to keep them in business!
>
> Hmmm... Mainly? Been there, done that. Have multiple T-shirts to show for it.
>
> Mainly, I'd consider it a waste of material, since I don't really have any use
> for either the support service, the manuals, or even the bundled apps. (Open
> Source is pretty much the way I go, anyway.)
>
> Why force a distribution manufacturer to incur expense for what I'm perfectly
> capable of getting myself?
>
> If someone who's already been using Linux for a while wants to support a
> distribution maker, wouldn't it make more sense to save them the expense of a
> would-be-unused box set and just send them the money directly in the form of a
> contribution?
>
> Think about it.
You have a valid point, but do you have statistics on how many open
source users actually do this?
Smitty
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