[kwlug-disc] The Linux Store

[CrankyOldBugger]

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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