Smitty wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Ask the FSF.
Norb
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