Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 30, 2005 07:39 PM
The real annoyance is that Mandriva releases the "Free Download from the Net" disk, you waste your time and energy downloading it, burning it, and trying to get it to work - only to find that you're back to the GUN TO YOUR HEAD TO JOIN THE CLUB. I would do so, but 1) The cost is too much for what you get, and 2) I have read too many complaints about shabby treatment of Club "Members". As someone in a position to recommend MDK, or not, it is not real wise to waste my time, or irritate me with constant, deliberate, annoynaces to try and squeeze some more money out of me just to have a system that works right. That's what I PAID FOR in the first place when I spent $150 on their software - then find out that - "oh, by the way, if you happen to have a really nice video card and need THOSE drivers, for just a few francs more we allow you to download the file." So I have to get the source, compile it out, install - which leads to the question: How is this better than just getting Slackware or running Gentoo? If I am going to have to "shoehorn" every upgrade by hand, or spend $250 per year, how is this better than M$ anyway? This trend is getting worse, not better, and the GPL is being parsed within an inch of it's life. Maybe I'll download the MDK source, compile it out for myself, and then go ahead and package it in RPM binaries for anyone who wants it...... It would be about the same amount of hassle...
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 30, 2005 07:39 PMI would do so, but 1) The cost is too much for what you get, and 2) I have read too many complaints about shabby treatment of Club "Members". As someone in a position to recommend MDK, or not, it is not real wise to waste my time, or irritate me with constant, deliberate, annoynaces to try and squeeze some more money out of me just to have a system that works right. That's what I PAID FOR in the first place when I spent $150 on their software - then find out that - "oh, by the way, if you happen to have a really nice video card and need THOSE drivers, for just a few francs more we allow you to download the file." So I have to get the source, compile it out, install - which leads to the question: How is this better than just getting Slackware or running Gentoo? If I am going to have to "shoehorn" every upgrade by hand, or spend $250 per year, how is this better than M$ anyway? This trend is getting worse, not better, and the GPL is being parsed within an inch of it's life. Maybe I'll download the MDK source, compile it out for myself, and then go ahead and package it in RPM binaries for anyone who wants it...... It would be about the same amount of hassle...
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