John Layt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 16 March 2006 04:17, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:I sadly agree that the "friendliness" of Mandriva decreased lately.
> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3591621
>
> Usually this is a sign that the financial and/or marketing people have
> wrested control of the company from the techie founder(s). Often a bad sign
> for the long term health of the company and its products, though not always
> (e.g. in the case where the founders are mismanaging things, sometimes it
> helps).
http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/06/03/15/208240.shtml?tid=138&tid=2
Their excuse is that Gael was heading the community relations side of things
and that they don't need/want that any more, so it's more that they have
abandoned their roots as a user-friendly desktop linux and are instead
choosing to pursue the corporate sector instead (as if we didn't already know
that from everything else that has happened in teh last 12 months).
The ironic thing is the short-term memory loss in the company that it was
leaving their solid base to chase some grand dream that almost destrued the
company and it was only the community that saved them.
Our reponse is obvious, go look for a distro that still serves a community and
will remain committed to that community, while retaining the use-of-use we
all liked about Mandrake.
John.
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I f eel more lonely here ....
I understand that peole that make it so graceful need money to live, but the commercial thing become more obvious....
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