> Jostein Hauge wrote:
>>
>> If Laprévote invites to collaboration to make a foundation, then this should
>> be looked into regardless of your personal feelings. I think most of us
>> would
>> love a solution like Fedora-Redhat.
>>
>> The name Mageia and the foundation might be kept. But what good does it make
>> to have a new Cooker, new build system or bugzilla? If collaboration between
>> Mandriva and Mageia is possible, then please collaborate.
>>
>> When someone reach out a hand, don't turn your back on it. Instead you could
>> indicate what you think would be needed in order to make collaboration
>> possible. Just saying 'no I wont collaborate at all' makes this look more
>> like
>> a vendetta than a constructive initiative.
>>
>>
> +1
>
> The tone of these threads started as exciting and hopeful, but is going
> downhill fast.
>
> As with any business, MDV will do what's (perceived as) good for MDV,
> whether or not that seems respectful to the community. I'd be the last
> one to deny that without the community, MDV probably would have folded
> long ago. But I doubt they tell the shareholders that, so don't expect
> their debt to the community to weigh heavily in policies created to
> please shareholders. They probably don't know we exist.
>
> In this case, MDV (= Laprévote) seems to think that a foundation is good
> for MDV, so I'd have a lot more confidence that they will back it than I
> would otherwise. And once they go down that path, it would be very
> difficult to reverse.
>
> No matter what your feelings about Mandriva management might be,
> remember the old saying: "the bread of one emperor is as sweet as the
> bread of another". If MDV is willing to pony up the resources to host a
> foundation of the type in which you're interested, *and* are willing to
> let the community control it, just go forward from there.
You loose the fact that I raised this issue and invited for discussion