Hello
My question is quite simple.
In the list of contributors, we can see a lot of former mandriva employee name.
They were employed by mandriva(or edge it) to create a distro. Now, they have
no job, so a lot of time, and they would like to continue this adventure. I can
understand it.
I have some questions about that :
- Is it legal for you, have you some right to work in the same field than your
previous employer ? Lot of contract have a clause to forbid that. It would be a
very bad news if mandriva asked some question about that and stop the project.
- Have you some financial plan to survive. Now you have maybe some money from
government, and again a lot of time, but if you find a job, how many time would
you take for the distro.
- People seems to think that Mageia would never have employees, is that true ?
Could you imagine to create a structure and month after month, hire the main
contributors to prevent Mageia to be out of developer soon ?
- You seems to think that it will be a free distro, but do you plan for some
cashable services ? If a company ask your support, would you refuse and ask
them to go to mandriva, or do you want to create something for that ?
Are you really motivated to do the same job than before, but without being paid
? Are you ok to give this work for free to your previous employer(it's GPL...)
My questions are most about money, I know that is a subject taht people love to
forget, but I'm sure that it's a very important part when you want to create a
budget, and I didn't get any information about that.
By the way, a forum would be very nice to prevent our mailbox from quick die :-)
Thank you
Pierre
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