On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 01:22 +0200, Tux99 wrote: > 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.
I agree; The only reason I came over to Mageia was its not for profit open community nature. -Nex6 > > _______________________________________________ > Mageia-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
