[kwlug-disc] The Linux Store

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

I can't tell about intentions.

But perhaps it is simply that he did not update the site since last
October, hence 13.10 is the latest.

There are CD collections on his site for $50. One can debate whether the
effort of copying the CDs warrants the price or not.


On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:20 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So this guy is for real?  Perhaps I'm mistaken, then.  I thought $10 for
> an old Ubuntu CD was a bit much, but the article you linked seems to
> suggest that his intentions are good.
>
>
> On 1 October 2014 14:13, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
>> The domain was registered in 2007 to one Ryan Cloke of Flipside
>> Technology Services who happens to be a Canadian from Toronto.
>>
>> http://www.ryancloke.com/
>>
>> This is an article about him doing this since 2006, with a .ca domain
>>
>> http://archive09.linux.com/feature/55712
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:59 PM, CrankyOldBugger <
>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is this a bit fishy?  I stumbled across http://www.thelinuxstore.org/
>>> while looking for Linux paraphernalia , and found that these people are
>>> charging $10 a pop for old Linux CDs (13.10 is the latest they have for
>>> Ubuntu).
>>>
>>> I hope nobody is falling for this gimmick...
>>>
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