On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, gettinther wrote:
> I cannot fathom why Mandriva should be involved so deeply so early in > the project life. > > I guess I was more expecting Mageia to plan their future first > independently and only then approach Mandriva for a possible > partnership on equal terms, not the other way around. I do believe > Mageia must first decide by itself what it wants to be before pulling > other entities. > > There will be always time for Mandriva, Suse, Fedora or even Debian to > join the foundation if they so wish, no? I have just read through the whole debate/argument on cooker with the Mandriva CEO and I must say that if anything it has confirmed to me that the fork was the right thing to do. Yes, Mageia would benefit in some ways from a partnership with Mandriva since Mandriva would provide the servers/hosting/bandwidth but the cost to pay in terms of dependence would be unacceptable. Comparing a potential Mageia/Mandriva partnership with Fedora/Redhat is laughable since Mandriva is absolutely not comparable to Redhat (a solid profit making company that understands the value of the community). I hope Mageia proceeds with the plan as laid out in the original statement on the web site, particularly the following bit: "Mageia is a community project: it will not depend on the fate of a particular company." Should this objective be broken, then I won't be part of the fork anymore (I know I won't be missed but I'm only stating my POV here). _______________________________________________ Mageia-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss
