On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 18:17 +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > It's not only the packagers. Was it not for the personal contacts I > had at Mandriva and in the community I would not have continued any > contribution after Mandriva terminated my contract. > But in general the difference between Mandriva and Mageia is really > the difference between company and community. > > While at Mandriva most users felt more like customers of a commercial > company than as parts of a community, with Mageia it's totally > different. > While with Mandriva the users always regarded the distribution as a > product of the company, being served to them (no matter whether there > were only employees or more contributors than employees). With Mageia > it is now _their_ product which _they_ serve to themselves and others. > > I think this is the core difference and we have to prove that this > impression is right.
Absolutely true, and very well expressed. Methinks if we fail with this, then we are doomed to fail period. George
