[Mageia-discuss] commercial support

[Marc Paré]

Le 2010-09-24 02:45, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> Hello,
>
>
> Personally, i think it's way too soon to be talking about this, but since it's
> been brought up in threads a couple of times, i would like to state what i
> feel could be useful in relation to this.
>
> A distro is used by alot of users, and sometimes also by companies. Companies
> using a distro are in favor of having support on it.
>
> Instead of commercialising Mageia, i would propose that a page be provided by
> people who are willing to provide support on Mageia to companies. (more or
> less like debian)
>
> I am not saying a separately branded enterprise version is off the table, i'm
> merely stating that at the start of this project, it may instill some
> confidence in our project if companies could see that some kind of support will
> be available.
>
> It could be as simple as a page with a simple list of contributers(non-novice)
> stating that they (or a company they are in) are willing to provide commercial
> support for Mageia, with a link to their site with contact info for it.
>
> It's just an idea, and after we have some kind of structure, this could be
> discussed.
>
> just my 2 cents,
>
> Maarten Vanraes

A good idea. Even if the support for the upkeep of this page were 
infrequent and sparse, it would add another layer of confidence in the 
community product.

Marc