[Mageia-discuss] Will Mageia meet small businesses' needs?

Wed Sep 29 13:44:08 CEST 2010

2010/9/29 Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>:
+> Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com> schrieb am 2010-09-29
+>> I think that's highly unlikely.  No volunteer-driven Linux distro is
+>> going to produce the type of turnkey commodity system Henri describes.
+>> Volunteers are generally techies who value flexibility and choice; for a
+>> distro to serve all the needs of its contributors (and why else would
+>> they contribute ?), flexibility and choice are crucial.
+> +100
+>
+> I do think, there would be a lot of people, leaving Mageia if we should start
+> only concentrating on one desktop and so on.
+>
+> But: It's all OpenSource, everybody can take a Mageia release and create a
+> product out of it, he can sell...
+>
+
+As with Mandriva Linux I expect community generated "Editions" being
+compiled anyway (like XFCe, LXDE, special editions for netbooks,
+tablets with touchscreens, etc.). So why not an edition for such Small
+Business, nothing to say against somebody creating a business around
+Mageia - as long as it is not the Mageia organisation itself.
+