> > 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 that 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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