On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:40, Tux99 <tux99-...@uridium.org> wrote: > [...]
Ok. This is, again, going nowhere. We don't even follow who is trying to make what point. > On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Romain d'Alverny wrote: >> Who talks about marketing here? Please stay on topic. Misc is talking >> about official representatives, board members liability - not only in >> France, but abroad. We're not in Merovingian times where one was >> judged according to his original land's law. > > Assuming that a board member get's arrested in the US because Mageia Who talks about being arrested or "frightened"?... Being liable and being arrested are two distinct things... >> There is no guarantee that we won't setup affiliate not-for-profit >> orgs abroad. >> Etc. > > If for this reason Mageia has to be a crippled mediocre product then all > these precautions were a wast of time and efforts too. > There is no point in making a grand, legally sound structure for a > useless product with a fading community. ... I don't understand your point, neither your attitude here... > A successfull Mageia would strive to take advantage of the countries > with the best laws for it's interest rather than plan according to the > lowest common denominator. Who said that was the plan?... >> wouldn't have located the association in France. There are other >> places far more interesting in this regard. > > And if you want Mageia to be really successful you should take advantage > of those places. Yes, right. :-) You know better the picture/history we (founders) are in. We're not going to incorporate right now at the other end of the world. :-) >> - what do we _want_ to have in software repositories and _why_? > > Easy, we want the best distro possible, with the best possible out of > the box experience, That is a very vague statement. "I want it all". However, we will get to that in time, see my previous post (yesterday) about the goal(s) of Mageia.org. >> - what are legal constraints that we must deal with >> (building/packaging/distributing/using), and how? > > We should strive to take advantage of the best legal environment to make > our targets possible. Sure. In a sustainable way. >> - how can we make this a predictable process for future situations? > > No one can predict the future, laws change all the time so the only way > is to base ourselves on current valid laws and keep frexible to move to > a better legal environment if necessary. This was not relative to laws only, but to the project mission first. > Opportunities not fear should be the key word here. Who speaks about fear? we're speaking about finding a policy for the project here. And I believe we are all able to _discuss_ this calmly without being offensive... Again, this conversation is going nowhere. Please, guys, post a _proposal_ for comments somewhere in a fixed format (blog, wiki page, anything) before proposing it for comment in a mail discussion. Or... make sure to frame the conversation, in topic, in time and in language. Cheers, Romain
