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Linux and Main: Questionable Linux Business Practice
Jan 8, 2003, 08 :30 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (9786 reads)

(Other stories by David A. Bandel)

"My readers may also know I do a lot of Linux business. What else? And because of that I'm always looking for good software (Linux-based of course) for my clients and my own use.

"Well, I recently had a Linux distribution recommended to me because this company had put together a brain-dead simple GUI tool for configuring it and it was specialized as a router (which I and several clients could use).

"I went to the site... The company is located in Latvia, but it is obviously very oriented toward the Western (read US) market. Unfortunately, too US oriented. They allow you to download their product for evaluation (which I wanted to do). This is where everything went south..."

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Anyone else find this absurd? As compani ...   Headline is libelous   
-bertox
Jan 8, 2003, 13:21:01
 
> Anyone else find this absurd? As compa ...   Re: Headline is libelous   
Michael G.
Jan 8, 2003, 14:58:17
 
Looking at the talkbalks provided me wit ...   I feel his pain   
Sloan
Jan 8, 2003, 16:37:47
 
> Absurd and short-sighted, yes. Questio ...   Re: Headline is libelous   
Dean Pannell (a.k.a. dinotrac)
Jan 9, 2003, 18:40:50
 
Far more persistent than I would be. Thi ...   Mr Bandel is persistent!   
Ellyn
Jan 9, 2003, 20:32:16
 
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