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Re: Request free live CD

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On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 14:09:29 +0100
Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jo, 10 feb 22, 20:05:32, Celejar wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:47:18 +0100
> > <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 03:05:26PM +0100, Dozzyjean Dozie wrote:
> > > > Please I will be very much interested to get a live CD from you, please
> > > > what are the prerequisites that are needed to be archived this request free
> > > > cd for free from you.
> > > 
> > > See here:
> > > 
> > >   https://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd
> > > 
> > > Since burning a CD and putting into the mail costs money, you can't
> > > expect someone doing it for you. In the above page it is explained
> > 
> > I'm genuinely curious about this: time and money are both scarce and
> > precious resources. Why is there an assumption that people will gladly
> > donate of their time to help others, but not their money? Is it because
> > the assumption is that the person asking for help should just spend
> > his own money, but may not be able to solve his problem by spending his
> > own time?
> 
> Assuming I might have a decent internet connection, a disc burner and 
> spare blank media I might consider helping out.
> 
> However, this particular request feels too much like someone just 
> wanting to take advantage of some freebie ("hey, I heard you give out 
> stuff for free so I want some"), as opposed to someone in real need 
> (hey, internet here is slow and/or metered, media burners are nowhere to 
> be found, etc., could someone help out?").

Totally understandable. Just to be clear, I did not mean to criticize
or accuse anyone of irrationality or hypocrisy - I was just curious
about the mindsets of open source devotees.

Celejar

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Request free live CD Dozzyjean Dozie <info.dozzyjeandozie@gmail.com> - 2022-02-10 15:30 +0100
  Re: Request free live CD <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-10 16:50 +0100
    Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 02:10 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD fxkl47BF@protonmail.com - 2022-02-11 02:30 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> - 2022-02-11 03:00 +0100
        Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 03:30 +0100
          Re: Request free live CD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-02-11 15:20 +0100
            Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 15:30 +0100
          Re: Request free live CD Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> - 2022-02-12 04:50 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-02-11 07:30 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-02-11 09:00 +0100
        Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 14:50 +0100
          Re: Request free live CD "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-02-11 20:40 +0100
            Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-11 20:50 +0100
              Re: Request free live CD Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2022-02-11 21:10 +0100
              Re: Request free live CD "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-02-11 22:20 +0100
              Re: Request free live CD rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-02-12 01:20 +0100
                Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-14 15:10 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2022-02-12 14:10 +0100
        Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-14 22:50 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-13 13:40 +0100
        Re: Request free live CD Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2022-02-14 16:10 +0100
          Re: Request free live CD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-02-14 17:10 +0100
          Re: Request free live CD Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-02-14 17:30 +0100
      Re: Request free live CD Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2022-02-14 17:30 +0100

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