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Mandrake Linux 9.2, Adware Version
thedarb writes "Mandrake has decided to sell ads to be seen during installation, web browsing and in screen savers. This all comes in their upcoming 9.2 release. Seven G's and you could put your face in their installer." Update: 09/12 18:07 GMT by M : Mandrake has a page about the ads.
For me, all the ads would end up coming across as ads for Debian, regardless of what they said or who paid for them.
Yeah.... So if you actually buy the boxed distro, you get no ads. That's cute. They've actually found a way for people to start pirating Linux.
.... they already sold a bulk of their ads to MS and SCO. :)
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
That was their plan all along. Didn't you know the goatse guy is Steve Ballmer?
Okay, this is a backdoor that has exploit potential written all over it.
Have any details been released as to the ad-delivery mechanisims?
"Fetish"? How dare you.
I have just one question for you. What was your price?
I very literally begin physically shaking when, on those rare occassions where I watch anything other than PBS, a commercial comes on and I am unable to turn the channel (such as when I am watching with someone else).
I need to get up and leave the room, because to some extent I don't want to be rude; some people actually enjoy watching commercials, and some even believe that if they do not watch at least some they are not fulfilling some obligation.
It is incredibly insulting to sit through a commercial. It denies your value as a human being, as a person.
Advertisers treat us as livestock. They fatten and pleasure us on sex and gluttony and sloth. Our souls are butchered and ground and packaged and we feed again this infernal machine, in which carries on that devilish churning, not resting or ceasing until every brother and every sister -- every human soul -- is bought and packged and sold and no one remembers who we are, who we once were but have forever lost.
I choose my behaviors in life specifically with the intention in mind to avoid being treated in a manner not fitting to what I am. I am a free man.
Except of necessity, my own or anothers', I will not purchase a product from a company which I find to treat me other than in the manner my very being merits I be treated.
When you sell out to consumerism, you sell out not only yourself, but sell out also just one step further each and all of us.
You are without excuse. Either you are for us -- for the dignity of the human person -- or you are against us.
Don't be a sell-out. We are better than that, all of us.
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