On Friday 24 Sep 2010 10:50:35 Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > 2010/9/24 Marc Paré <[email protected]>: > > It may be to our benefit to see if some similar growth models could be > > applied to Mageia. > > My main reason to applaud the decision to start Mageia and also my > main motivation to join this project is the fact that it is community > driven and community led. That it is not subject to commercial > strategies and/or necessities or even pressure and restraints. I am > not interested to face this situation again that some manager tells me > what I have to do because of a situation he (or his kind) has created > or caused. > > If somebody thinks about commercial options I will only agree if these > options are under control of the community board, not the other way > round, and if this commercial part has a different name and brand. > > I've been suffering from this mixture of commercial and half-free and > free Mandriva Linux for years, having to correct misunderstandings, > unclear descriptions and articles which still today make users at > events ask me, "why Mandriva takes money for their distribution while > Ubuntu is cost free?". > > I don't want that to be repeated with Mageia. > > wobo
Now this is really good stuff, we have, between here, the feeling I'm collecting off IRC and the frontpage of mageia.org, the ingredients of a vision and mission statement. Who do I talk to about setting up a Marketing Mail list I'll set up a pirate pad in any case. Cheers GL -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Open Technologies) www.theingots.org _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
