On 15 October 2010 16:22, Marcello Anni <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't think any respectable Linux distro should go the Ubuntu way in >> the branding part. Promoting ourselves as just "Mageia" not as >> "Mageia, a Linux distro", even implicitly, is just wrong. People who >> contribute to the FOSS world still have ethics and "values" to uphold. >> I don't care if it's commercially successful or not, and we _can be a >> successful Linux distro_. >> > > i'd prefer a user that chooses mageia as it is and then he becomes interested > in linux and in its community (and values) than considering mageia as a linux > distro and not to trying it as he thinks it is too diffult... do you agree? > > > > Marcello >
It's the other way around, the user is interested in Linux, for whatever reason: - economical, he can't afford windows - usability, he's tired of fixing his windows boxes... etc - ideological, he wants to use free open source software then he looks for a distro and start using it. Of course seeing an OS on a friend's machine may be an incentive to give that "thing" a shot, but he should know what he's about to use. -- Ahmad Samir
