[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-discuss Digest, Vol 1, Issue 49

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>
> Hello
>
> My question is quite simple.
> In the list of contributors, we can see a lot of former mandriva employee
> name.
> They were employed by mandriva(or edge it) to create a distro. Now, they
> have no job, so a lot of time, and they would like to continue this
> adventure. I can understand it.
> I have some questions about that :
>  - Is it legal for you, have you some right to work in the same field than
> your previous employer ? Lot of contract have a clause to forbid that. It
> would be a very bad news if mandriva asked some question about that and
> stop the project.
>  - Have you some financial plan to survive. Now you have maybe some money
> from government, and again a lot of time, but if you find a job, how many
> time would you take for the distro.
>  - People seems to think that Mageia would never have employees, is that
> true ? Could you imagine to create a structure and month after month,
> hire the main contributors to prevent Mageia to be out of developer soon
> ?
>  - You seems to think that it will be a free distro, but do you plan for
> some cashable services ? If a company ask your support, would you refuse
> and ask them to go to mandriva, or do you want to create something for
> that ?
>
> Are you really motivated to do the same job than before, but without being
> paid ?  Are you ok to give this work for free to your previous
> employer(it's GPL...)
>
> My questions are most about money, I know that is a subject that people
> love to forget, but I'm sure that it's a very important part when you want
> to create a budget, and I didn't get any information about that.
>
> By the way, a forum would be very nice to prevent our mailbox from quick
> die :-)
>
> Thank you
> Pierre
>

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