Tuesday, September 21, 2004
 
No Irony To See Here, Move Along

From Mandrake Linux's download page:
    Since Mandrakelinux is an Open Source product, it needs your financial contribution. Developing a Linux distribution is very costly, so it's up to the community of users to ensure its health. Do you want to help Mandrakelinux become even more robust and powerful? Would you like to see Mandrakelinux become the next standard operating system?

    Before downloading our products, we ask for your support by joining the Mandrakelinux Users Club. The Club was created to fund the development of the Mandrakelinux distribution and to pay the salaries of employees who are dedicated to "external" Free Software projects such as the Linux kernel, KDE, GNOME, Prelude, and others. The Mandrakelinux Club also provides attractive benefits to its members such as specialized Internet services and download of many extra-applications.

    Free Software can only remain healthy with your financial support, so please join the Mandrakelinux Users Club today.
I understand that's why some communities--called "companies"--charge money for things.

It's organic socialism, and I don't mind it a bit; however, applying the same concepts to government leads to all kinds of irritation on the part of us heartless fiscal conservatives.

In case you're wondering, I didn't download from the Mandrake page; I'd rather pay for the convenience of having a set of CDs and some rudimentary documentation without having to read through a bunch of developer-created documentation scattered among Web pages.


- posted by Brian J. @ 10:36 AM
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