> 2011/6/11 Anne nicolas <[email protected]>: > > > > > > 2011/6/11 Wolfgang Bornath <[email protected]> > >> > >> Yes, nice review but with flaws. > >> > >> In my review I will talk about this as well but I will also tell > >> why this is so and the simple way for the user to get his > >> drivers. > >> > >> The advantage of an author who knows about the subject of his > >> review. That's why the German magazine was pleased to have > >> Mandriva users write the Mandriva reviews. > >> > >> As for the non-free issue: I really wonder why this is coming up > >> again and again and again. It was decided that we keep the DVD > >> free of non-free drivers and that we will have these drivers on > >> the Live media. Why has this to be discussed again, nothing has > >> changed in the meantime. > >> > >> +1 for Thomas sentence about what we are promoting. I would not > >> be a part of all this if we didn't. > >> c > > > > I do agree also. But maybe we have to make some effort to improve > > our description of available media and why these choice. Eve if > > this is clear for us it may be not that clear for others. BTW I > > did post a comment on the article to explain this. I also > > answered Beranger onTwitter on same topic. A great task for our > > marketing team :) > > Yes, we did a lot of such commenting on articles and posting in the > forums about this issue for Mandriva because with each release there > are new users coming and asking. And we are doing it for Mageia as > well. Somehow each new user thinks he has to start his own thread > about this :( > > That's why I'd like to see a basic text, explaining everything. This > text could be published on the website (a link on the download page > "What about non-free software?" leading to that text), in the forums > as general announcement, a link in the release notes, etc. And of > course a blog entry "Mageia's distribution policy about non-free > software". > > Then we do not have to explain it all over again and again in mails > and forums. Reviews will still remain the same because normal review > authors do not read such texts. :(
Yes, agree wholeheartedly. Any clues about exactly what states our position accurately? Then I can start writing stuff up. Cheers, -- Trish Fraser, JD9R RQ2D 52.4161N,16.9303E za jun 11 15:00:14 CEST 2011 GNU/Linux 1997-2010 #283226 counter.li.org andromeda up 7 hour(s), 38 min. kernel 2.6.38.7-desktop-1.mga --
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