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This is, again, going nowhere. We don't even follow who is trying +to make what point. + +><i> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Romain d'Alverny wrote: +</I>>><i> Who talks about marketing here? Please stay on topic. Misc is talking +</I>>><i> about official representatives, board members liability - not only in +</I>>><i> France, but abroad. We're not in Merovingian times where one was +</I>>><i> judged according to his original land's law. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Assuming that a board member get's arrested in the US because Mageia +</I> +Who talks about being arrested or "frightened"?... Being liable and +being arrested are two distinct things... + + +>><i> There is no guarantee that we won't setup affiliate not-for-profit +</I>>><i> orgs abroad. +</I>>><i> Etc. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If for this reason Mageia has to be a crippled mediocre product then all +</I>><i> these precautions were a wast of time and efforts too. +</I>><i> There is no point in making a grand, legally sound structure for a +</I>><i> useless product with a fading community. +</I> +... + +I don't understand your point, neither your attitude here... + +><i> A successfull Mageia would strive to take advantage of the countries +</I>><i> with the best laws for it's interest rather than plan according to the +</I>><i> lowest common denominator. +</I> +Who said that was the plan?... + +>><i> wouldn't have located the association in France. There are other +</I>>><i> places far more interesting in this regard. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> And if you want Mageia to be really successful you should take advantage +</I>><i> of those places. +</I> +Yes, right. :-) You know better the picture/history we (founders) are +in. We're not going to incorporate right now at the other end of the +world. :-) + +>><i>  - what do we _want_ to have in software repositories and _why_? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Easy, we want the best distro possible, with the best possible out of +</I>><i> the box experience, +</I> +That is a very vague statement. "I want it all". However, we will get +to that in time, see my previous post (yesterday) about the goal(s) of +Mageia.org. + +>><i>  - what are legal constraints that we must deal with +</I>>><i> (building/packaging/distributing/using), and how? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> We should strive to take advantage of the best legal environment to make +</I>><i> our targets possible. +</I> +Sure. In a sustainable way. + +>><i>  - how can we make this a predictable process for future situations? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> No one can predict the future, laws change all the time so the only way +</I>><i> is to base ourselves on current valid laws and keep frexible to move to +</I>><i> a better legal environment if necessary. +</I> +This was not relative to laws only, but to the project mission first. + +><i> Opportunities not fear should be the key word here. +</I> +Who speaks about fear? we're speaking about finding a policy for the +project here. + +And I believe we are all able to _discuss_ this calmly without being +offensive... Again, this conversation is going nowhere. + +Please, guys, post a _proposal_ for comments somewhere in a fixed +format (blog, wiki page, anything) before proposing it for comment in +a mail discussion. Or... make sure to frame the conversation, in +topic, in time and in language. + +Cheers, + +Romain +</PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001216.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001217.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1223">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1223">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1223">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1223">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |