I have started a plee to Mandriva to keep their products and most ways of getting them free! The have different licenses, Downloadable and Commercial! Linux is free!!!

Help to keep it this day!

I wrote them an e-mail at 7:37 this morning
I'm sorry if you may find this rude but I'm afraid to say that it is the way it should happen. I love your Linux products and am using Mandrake Linux 9.0 as it happens right now. Upon trying to upgrade/download Mandriva Linux 10.1 PP+ I found that we could use your 'High speed servers', I thought that would be brilliant because with trying overnight to download from a public server, the download stopped at 400mb! So anyway I thought i'd have a go at using your 'High speed servers' until I found that you had to pay for them! I'm very sorry to say this but Linux should be 100% free, no matter from who you get it from, you shouldn't have to pay. I have always liked Linux as their initial products were free, but now you cannot download the products without paying! Red Hat might putting be me towards their Fedora Core products as they are widely available of their high-speed servers AND torrents at no extra cost!!

Why do you have different licenses for your Linux products too, commercial and downloaded! Why? Linux is a free, Open source program as I have said before in this mail! Surely you cannot have a commercial version of a free program, and if so, what differences are there? This is completely outrageous to think that some people will pay money for a free product!

I will be looking forward to a reply,

Rudi Visser
I hope that some other people will do the same, and if they do, please post what you sent!

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