[kwlug-disc] The Linux Store

[CrankyOldBugger]

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...


On 1 October 2014 14:27, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> 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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