Le vendredi 24 septembre 2010 à 03:07 +0200, J.A. Magallón a écrit : > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:58:30 +0200, Michael Scherer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > How would you ensure that the community version will not be seen as a > > cheap version of the commercial one ? How would you prevent this idea > > from destroying again the community like it did by the past ? > > > ... > > All people who I asked the question said that the only solution is to > > have 2 different names and brandings. > > Redhat do it, and it work fine from them. > > Novell do it, and it work fine. > > Canonical do it ( to a lesser extend , since there was > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-servers/+bug/375345 ), and it work > > fine. > > > > Even debian based distro used a different name ( progeny, etc ). > > > > We didn't for Mandriva, and so started the confusion between the > > company, the distribution and the community. And so people didn't > > contribute because it was a business, and the idea that "updates were > > not free" stick around for a long time because it was hard to explain to > > people the different concept > > > > So if there is a business or commercial version, I think this would > > requires a different name and branding. Using the association name for > > that would not be right, in my opinion. > > > > I (and this is a totally personal opinion, of course, even if I sound harsh) > really hate all this mess of editions/versions/variants of the same distro. > I have always installed both servers and desktops with the same Mandriva > edition. In fact (perhaps I'm ignorant on this point), what's the difference > between lets say a 'server' edition and a 'desktop' edition ? The default > set of installed packages ?
Yes. From a purely technical point of view, that's the only change. In a closed source world, you could add artificial restrictions ( as Microsoft did for Windows or for old Windows NT server edition, who cannot handle much memory, or not too much processor, etc ). > And what is the difference between the Commercial and the Free edition ? > The support from the company ? Yes again. Even if the Free edition could be supported as well by contract if needed. But for cost reason, someone who offer support will prefer to do it on a small subset of know packages in order to avoid surprise. But there is company that offer support on almost all kind of system. Usually, it is just a matter of paying enough. I used to have a job of supporting debian as sysadmin, on any type of packages, for a client, so that's not uncommon. -- Michael Scherer _______________________________________________ Mageia-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev
