<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Maybe his audience is for those ‘hardcore’ linux users that live under a rock with a 1200baud modem….<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 1, 2014, at 2:36 PM, CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">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...<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 October 2014 14:27, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I can't tell about intentions. <br><br>But perhaps it is simply that he did not update the site since last October, hence 13.10 is the latest.<br><br>There are CD collections on his site for $50. One can debate whether the effort of copying the CDs warrants the price or not.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:20 PM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 October 2014 14:13, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>The domain was registered in 2007 to one Ryan Cloke of Flipside Technology Services who happens to be a Canadian from Toronto.<br></div><br><a href="http://www.ryancloke.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ryancloke.com/</a><br><br></div>This is an article about him doing this since 2006, with a .ca domain<br><br><a href="http://archive09.linux.com/feature/55712" target="_blank">http://archive09.linux.com/feature/55712</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:59 PM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Is this a bit fishy? I stumbled across <a href="http://www.thelinuxstore.org/" target="_blank">http://www.thelinuxstore.org/</a> 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).</div><div><br></div></div><div>I hope nobody is falling for this gimmick...</div><div><br></div></div>
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