[luau] Hat 7.3 / Drake 8.2 / Simplicity

[Joe Linux]

In the past any question I submitted to the Mandrake Experts, they 
couldn't answer.  Anyway I think a list like this is far superior.  I 
wouldn't hesitate to join Mandrake's "Club" but for myself I won't be 
using their paid experts.  Wayne we are just individual computer users, 
not corporations.  If you want support, I would say the best bet would 
be to buy the boxed set where installation support is a part of it.  I 
didn't ask Mandrake or anyone else to go into the Linux business. It was 
their own choice.  They are the ones that put their stuff on the web for 
free download and so forth.  This is a users' group.

Ever since the Commodore 64 users groups have been helping users for 
free.  In fact one of the best user clubs ever was right here in Hawaii 
and  it met at the Kaimuki Library.  It was run by a guy named "Zarf." 
 He was s computer specialist who worked at Hickam.  Later on after  
Commodore had died, I had his daughter in my classroom.  Does anyone 
else remember Zarf and his wonderful Commodore 64 sessions?

 Speaking of Commodore, I used one for several years and was able to get 
as much productive work out of it as these bloated modern machines. 
 There was a Word Processor for Commodore called Paper Clip.  It was one 
of the most elegant programs ever written, It was all in machine 
language and ran in 64k and was actually more versatile than Word 
Perfect at the time.  I had to hound WordPerfect for several years to 
get them to put in some of the same features that Commodore's PaperClip 
had.  The only reason I stopped using it was that it wasn't available 
for DOS.

And did you know Wayne, I in a way designed how WordPefect's data base 
sorts.  The way it works today is exactly how I suggested to them that 
it should work which is different from the way it was originally.  WP 
used my ideas, but I never got paid by them.

W. Wayne Liauh wrote:

> On the MandrakeExpert issue, 85% of the fees go to those qualified 
> "experts".  A "Mandrake expert" starts out by giving "free" advices, 
> then when his/her knowledge is recognized by the community to have 
> reached a certain level, s/he will start getting paid.
>
>>
>>> We have to learn that sometimes, or most of time for Windows users, 
>>> we need to pay to have our questions answered.  Mandrake has a 
>>> MandrakeExpert, where you can pay to have your questions answered.)
>>>