I don't have problem with people working in Mageia improvements and receive payment for it, because this improvement will be free software.
I remembered this blogpost about payment to develop poppler/Okular features - http://tsdgeos.blogspot.com.br/2012/06/free-software-free-to-pay.html 2012/11/24 Sander Lepik <sander.le...@eesti.ee> > 24.11.2012 18:55, PhilippeDidier kirjutas: > > NO ! > > You mean someone is paid and create a third repo for something Mageia > > doesn't want to import... > > > > If that thing brings a mess into Mageia, we will see bug reports in > > bugzilla and lot of time lost by Mageia bug-triagers, devs, packagers, > > before discovering that is not a Mageia problem but that this stuff > > brought some shit ! > > We suffer of lack of time... and this will consume more time from > > voluntary contributors to repair something badly done by someone that > > was paid for it ! > Well, we have such repos already today and you can't stop something like > that. But you saw > my example the wrong way. Mageia doesn't have to support those repos and > problems caused by > such packages. I don't like such repos either and i hope that paid people > fix things in our > repos. > > -- > Sander > > -- Filipe Saraiva http://filipesaraiva.info/