diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20100924/000197.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20100924/000197.html | 114 |
1 files changed, 114 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20100924/000197.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20100924/000197.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c6effe430 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/20100924/000197.html @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] Art, Logo and Branding + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Art%2C%20Logo%20and%20Branding&In-Reply-To=%3C1285317375.2652.34.camel%40akroma.ephaone.org%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="000194.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="000199.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] Art, Logo and Branding</H1> + <B>Michael Scherer</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Art%2C%20Logo%20and%20Branding&In-Reply-To=%3C1285317375.2652.34.camel%40akroma.ephaone.org%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Art, Logo and Branding">misc at zarb.org + </A><BR> + <I>Fri Sep 24 10:36:15 CEST 2010</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000194.html">[Mageia-dev] Art, Logo and Branding +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000199.html">[Mageia-dev] Wrong link on webpage +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#197">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#197">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#197">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#197">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>Le vendredi 24 septembre 2010 à 03:07 +0200, J.A. Magallón a écrit : +><i> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:58:30 +0200, Michael Scherer <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">misc at zarb.org</A>> wrote: +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > How would you ensure that the community version will not be seen as a +</I>><i> > cheap version of the commercial one ? How would you prevent this idea +</I>><i> > from destroying again the community like it did by the past ? +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> ... +</I>><i> > All people who I asked the question said that the only solution is to +</I>><i> > have 2 different names and brandings. +</I>><i> > Redhat do it, and it work fine from them. +</I>><i> > Novell do it, and it work fine. +</I>><i> > Canonical do it ( to a lesser extend , since there was +</I>><i> > <A HREF="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-servers/+bug/375345">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-servers/+bug/375345</A> ), and it work +</I>><i> > fine. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Even debian based distro used a different name ( progeny, etc ). +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > We didn't for Mandriva, and so started the confusion between the +</I>><i> > company, the distribution and the community. And so people didn't +</I>><i> > contribute because it was a business, and the idea that "updates were +</I>><i> > not free" stick around for a long time because it was hard to explain to +</I>><i> > people the different concept +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > So if there is a business or commercial version, I think this would +</I>><i> > requires a different name and branding. Using the association name for +</I>><i> > that would not be right, in my opinion. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I (and this is a totally personal opinion, of course, even if I sound harsh) +</I>><i> really hate all this mess of editions/versions/variants of the same distro. +</I>><i> I have always installed both servers and desktops with the same Mandriva +</I>><i> edition. In fact (perhaps I'm ignorant on this point), what's the difference +</I>><i> between lets say a 'server' edition and a 'desktop' edition ? The default +</I>><i> set of installed packages ? +</I> +Yes. From a purely technical point of view, that's the only change. In a +closed source world, you could add artificial restrictions ( as +Microsoft did for Windows or for old Windows NT server edition, who +cannot handle much memory, or not too much processor, etc ). + +><i> And what is the difference between the Commercial and the Free edition ? +</I>><i> The support from the company ? +</I> +Yes again. +Even if the Free edition could be supported as well by contract if +needed. But for cost reason, someone who offer support will prefer to do +it on a small subset of know packages in order to avoid surprise. But +there is company that offer support on almost all kind of system. + +Usually, it is just a matter of paying enough. I used to have a job of +supporting debian as sysadmin, on any type of packages, for a client, so +that's not uncommon. +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000194.html">[Mageia-dev] Art, Logo and Branding +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000199.html">[Mageia-dev] Wrong link on webpage +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#197">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#197">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#197">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#197">[ 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> |