Is Debian a fraud ?
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From: Rahul on 13 Feb 2010 18:40 The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in news:hl63vg$pih$2 @news.albasani.net: > the cost of the bandwidth is generally a lot less than the cost of the > DVDS... Not in India. -- Rahul
From: Robert Heller on 13 Feb 2010 19:01 At Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Rahul <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > > The Natural Philosopher <tnp(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in news:hl63vg$pih$2 > @news.albasani.net: > > > the cost of the bandwidth is generally a lot less than the cost of the > > DVDS... > > Not in India. And often unavailable in some places, like rural America. (That's right: much of rural *USA* does not have any sort of high speed internet.) > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller(a)deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
From: Rahul on 13 Feb 2010 19:11 Rahul <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in news:Xns9D1EB3D641D2A6650A1FC0D7811DDBC81(a)85.214.113.135: >> the cost of the bandwidth is generally a lot less than the cost of the >> DVDS... > > Not in India. My parent's ISP still bills them by the GB's they download. -- Rahul
From: Maxwell Lol on 13 Feb 2010 19:55 no.top.post(a)gmail.com writes: > Apparently during the install/upgrade process Debian > wants to me to pay for an internet connection, which it Pay? as in "you don't have a cable modem at home, and you refuse to get an ISP account" Or pay as in "please enter your credit card number..." > will use to 'connect to it's site'. > > This is worse than Micro$loth! Microsoft also wants an Internet connection. And if you have no ISP, go to a place where there is free Wifi. .... or you can flame instead of solving your problem.
From: Robert on 13 Feb 2010 22:14
felmon wrote: > is there a reason to start a new thread? a couple of people, including me, > were trying to help you past the internet connection throttle in another > thread. <hki4gr$qvh$1(a)news.eternal-september.org> > > you got good advice from J. G. Miller and Mumia W. you haven't responded > to their tips but I gather you are still having trouble. what went wrong? > > Felmon nothing went wrong, this is just another troll post from Gary Stewart A.K.A "flatfish", Moshe Goldfarb, or any one of a hundred "nyms" that this troll uses to troll the Linux groups with. best thing to do is just killfile him. |