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10-02-2002, 04:51 AM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Distribution: Mandrake 8.1 on me server, Mac OS X on me Desktop
Posts: 41
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Is it legal?!?
Is it legal to buy Mandrake 9 or any of the other popular/commercial flavours of Linux via a third-party selling copies they've created themselves?
I found a guy selling Mandrake 9 for NZ$17 on an auction site, but I notice Mandrake asks for financial support when attempting a download from their website.
Not that I can download it anyway with my 56K modem...confused.
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10-02-2002, 05:54 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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if the guy is just blatantly selling CDR's burnt with the mandrake ISO files then that's fine, i think it becomes potentnailly dubious if he's trying to pass them off as auhentic, which would be a silly thing to do anyway
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10-24-2002, 08:17 AM
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Registered: Mar 2002
Location: phoenix,az
Distribution: red hat linux enterprise-centos
Posts: 766
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if the distro is downloaded off the interenet and burnt to cd,s , one thing to note is that it will differ in that if you won,t get the applications cd, i believe it only comes with mandrakes retail version. i am waiting for mandrake 9 powerpack to released, hoping soon
Last edited by ronss; 10-24-2002 at 08:22 AM.
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10-25-2002, 06:05 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2002
Posts: 2
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Hi all,
it's a legal thing ... because Mandrake 9.0 is a free distro !!
You can find it on www.linuxcd.org for only $9.29 !
Regards,
Guillaume.
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10-26-2002, 08:06 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2001
Location: Bristol, UK
Distribution: Slackware, Fedora, RHES
Posts: 2,243
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Guillaume,
Two post - two adverts. Offering your services is great but I hope your not just going to advertise your site in reply to every question where someone wants a distro!
cheers
Jamie...
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10-27-2002, 03:09 AM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2002
Location: Guangdong,Chinese
Distribution: Redhat AS 3.0 + FC1
Posts: 72
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Buy the distro from MDK official shop, then you can get their support. but maybe a little expensive. Download and resell their distro is legal. You needn't to worry about it.
To me, $9 is very expensive, and I would not buy it. I perfer to downloading it over FTP.
One blank CD-R cost almost 0.2$, if you buy much more it will be more cheap .I bought 100 pieces cost about 14$. Use your money carefully!
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