On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 18:13, Wolfgang Bornath <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO one of the major points in this issue is to keep the association > and any commercial activities apart.
Yes. > Future options I see in individual activities. Every contributor or > groups of contributors can open a business of his/their own based on > the Mageia distribution (additional software solutions, consulting, > etc.) and then "give back" to the Association in general or even > employ one or more of the contributors of Mageia. But the Association > itself has to keep clear of any commercial activities. Otherwise we > could soon be back at that point we all left behind: making decisions > about the distribution forced by business. Well, because it's business does not imply it is going to be wrong but I share the point here in that it looks much more a sound plan to keep potentially drifting forces separate. > You may call me paranoid, no problem. No paranoia here. It makes sense and matches a certain set of concepts: keep it small, simple, have distinct components per role and loosely couple them. Romain
