[Mageia-discuss] Suggestions

[Liam R E Quin]

On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 20:46 -0500, Dale Huckeby wrote:

> > 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.

(hmm, the attributions got lost somewhere, sorry)

The Fedora Project became part of Red Hat in no small part as a
reaction to the way Mandrake (at the time) was making a Linux
distribution with an active developer community, and with active
contributors outside the company, something Red Hat saw was important.

I think Mandriva continued to do this, if not perfectly, at least
better than some others.

So there's a spectrum, with e.g. Sun and Solaris at one end (company
in complete control) to Debian at the other, with lots of room in
between.

The important thing is to attract both developers _and_ people new to
Linux, to listen to their needs, and to keep them as users and as
part of the community.

Liam

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