[kwlug-disc] The Linux Store

[Jonathan Poole]

Maybe his audience is for those ‘hardcore’ linux users that live under a rock with a 1200baud modem….


On Oct 1, 2014, at 2:36 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well he says on one page that you can "save time and money by buying CDs instead of downloading"..  Maybe I don't math well, but downloading a CD for free in a matter of minutes versus paying $10 then waiting however many weeks seems to negate his statement...
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> On 1 October 2014 14:27, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
> I can't tell about intentions. 
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> But perhaps it is simply that he did not update the site since last October, hence 13.10 is the latest.
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> There are CD collections on his site for $50. One can debate whether the effort of copying the CDs warrants the price or not.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> http://www.ryancloke.com/
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> This is an article about him doing this since 2006, with a .ca domain
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> http://archive09.linux.com/feature/55712
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> 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).
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> I hope nobody is falling for this gimmick...
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