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List:       mandrake-expert
Subject:    Re: [expert] slimy MandrakeSoft - deceptive advertising
From:       Juan Luis Baptiste <jbaptiste () cable ! net ! co>
Date:       2005-02-17 4:29:06
Message-ID: 200502162329.06977.jbaptiste () cable ! net ! co
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El Mié 16 Feb 2005 22:02, bandds@airnet.com.au escribió:
> With all due respect, I don't think the offer was the problem,
> rather how it was put.  This sort of advertising is rampant in
> our comercial world, and it always comes across as deceptive.
>
> Big headline: FREE FREE FREE
> Fine print:  you have to pay for it
>
> It leaves a bad taste in one's mouth.  How about if the big
> headline read  "Special Offer - 25% off Mandrake Club Membership"
>
> Now that would have elicitted a quite different response.
>

I totally agree. What I thought at the beginning when I read the mail subject 
was that I could have a Mandrake Club account for free for three months, then 
when I finished reading all the mail and saw it was merely a 25% disccount I 
felt very disappointed, as the announce seems to be intencionally misleading 
so Mandrakesoft could get our attention in the email.

But to the original poster, if you don't want to pay for Mandrake Club 
*service* yo don't have to, nobody is forcing you to do so right? the code 
for all free software apps that you can find in mandrake club you can find 
them freely available on the net. Just go and compile them your self or make 
your own rpm's and share them with the other persons you feel they think like 
you on this. Or go and use Debian if you think everything *must* be free.

Also, can I ask you, as you must know, free software isn't about getting 
things for free, it's also about sharing and helping each other. Mandrake and 
free software in general have given you *a lot* for free, but what have you 
give them back??? I would looooove to know it.

Cheers,
-- 
Juan Luis Baptiste
http://www.merlinux.org
http://knetworkconf.sf.net


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