On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, [UTF-8] Marc Paré wrote: > > Best to have these discussions at the initial stages of the project > rather than later after everything has been firmed up. It is certainly > harder/painful to change name and logos after they have been adopted. > > Just in case, you never know, Mageia could actually become a good > contender in the top listed distro market. It certainly has the momentum > at this time. > > Marc
Maybe you don't realise it, but the momentum would be quickly lost if you start to pollute the original objectives with commercial aims, a large part of the enthusiasm is BECAUSE Mageia is non-profit. I would not contribute to Mageia (neither money nor time) if it becomes for-profit and I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one. I really hope that the foundation charta makes this very clear (the non-profit scope) else it would cause a lot of momentum to evaporate. Again, Debian or the Linux kernel project are IMHO the examples to follow, nothing else. _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
