[Mageia-discuss] Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250

[Hoyt Duff]

On 6/7/11, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:

>
> They can blame Mageia as much as they want, that will not change the
> international copyright treaties.
>
>
>> The question is how will Mageia balance the need for "just works" with
>> the desire to honor copyrights and engage only in legal software
>> distribution? This is made more complex because those rights and
>> copyright laws are not equal everywhere in the world.
>
> So if the question is :
> "will mageia do something clearly illegal in France to please users", I
> think that I can safely answer "no".
>
> But if you are not satisfied with the answer and my reasoning, feel free
> to ask to the council or the board for a precision. Or ask to a lawyer.
>
> Even Canonical did clean the firmware package, as you can see if you
> follow the url given by the blog post I mentioned.
>


You miss my point.

We are in agreement as to the legality and what should be done with
the software. I'm not asking Mageia to do anything illegal.

You imply that you don't care if customers wrongly blame Mageia. That
seems to be a counterproductive attitude about customer service and
the success of Mageia. Certainly that can't be true?

-- 
Hoyt