Olav Dahlum a écrit :
On 22/09/10 10:38, Anne nicolas wrote:
Most agree that Mageia's destiny must now be in the hands of the community, and
not depend on a company. Yes, but if said company is ready to act as a member
of the community (like any of us but with maybe more means), and contribute to
the project + do whatever it wants from the free distribution (corporate
desktop, MDS, OEM products or anything else), then it's a win-win.
And I pray again the former Edge-IT employees to avoid simply saying "I don't want to have
anything to do with Mandriva", but rather the more nuanced "I don't want Mageia to depend
on Mandriva" !
Naïve point of view of mine ?
Not at all. Our goal is to make Mageia a succes for community. And I
guess we have work enough for now :).
Cheers
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Anne
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So we agree on most things in this thread?
-Olav.
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Having watched the various opinions on this thread, I think it is very
important to collaberate with Mandriva to attain the goals of our
community distribution, as much as is reasonably possible. This
includes accepting foundation funding, sharing cooker, even Mandriva
representation on the board -- while maintaining our right to decide our
future direction.
In my mind evolving to a RedHat/Fedora relationship would be ideal, but
if not, look at the success of Mozilla, started with funding from AOL.
The advantage of an independant Mageia is that we focus on community
needs, and Mandriva focuses on commercial needs -- quite different
focuses, even though most of the software can be the same.
I'm glad to see that Anne is on side, and I hope that Romain will
continue to contribute to Mageia, as his experience seems invaluable.
- André (just a long-time Mandriva user that hasn't to date contributed
much more than bug reports. And hopes to continue more actively to the
first Mageia release.)
