Well... They do give it away, just not on Cd or as .ISO!
I installed it through FTP. What a pain, but worth it. It seems more stable than MDK, RH, SLack. The installation really does a better job of checking dependencies.
I downloaded 3 Mandrake CD's in less than 1.5 hours. The packages I chose with SuSE were similar (about 2 G installed), and it took 12 hours