[Mageia-discuss] FSF backing would be a huge boost for Mageia

Praveen A pravi.a at gmail.com
Sun Sep 19 21:28:16 CEST 2010


2010/9/19 Anshul Jain <anshulajain at gmail.com>:
> I fully agree. Usability has to triumph over ideology. Adhering to the FSF
> guidelines will needlessly shackle the distro into ideological issues.
> Something we can do without.
>
> Maybe we need to come out with a charter, manifesto of some sorts that
> defines the target of the distro. I have noticed many questioning the
> existence of Mageia...considering the plethora of options available...like
> Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian etc. Fedora has the the bleeding edge, Ubuntu has the
> refined and polished look while Debian has its ideological purity of DFSG.
>

I just wanted to hear what community has to say about it. Looks like
nobody wants ideological purity. Like Anshul mentioned, probably a
manifesto of what Mageia wants to be is a good idea.

Praveen
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