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The only thing which +</I>><i> >depends on Mageia or any other distributor is if you want to offer +</I>><i> >"certified by Mageia" or similar. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> >> For example, one can legally do 3rd party installs and support with +</I>><i> >> Debian and Scientific, but not with Redhat, Mandriva, Suse or even +</I>><i> >> CentOS, due to their license and trademark terms (yes I know lots of +</I>><i> >> people do regardless, but they haven't read/understood the license +</I>><i> >> terms!). +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> >Partly wrong. You can always offer commercial support for openSUSE, +</I>><i> >Mandriva Free Edition and such. Only thing you can't is offering +</I>><i> >"certified support". And of course you need an agreement with +</I>><i> >distributors of commercial distributions to support those. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If the need arises, what problem would there be if any number of Mageia +</I>><i> volunteers set up a commercial "Mageia Service SA" with a license from the +</I>><i> Mageia non-profit association to provide such commercial support? They +</I>><i> could make a contract that the profits from the SA would go to the +</I>><i> association and/or the shareholders and/or the employed volunteers at +</I>><i> certain agreed percentages of the earnings. +</I> +Personally, i don't think this 'll be a problem if they wanted to be; however: + +look at all the other commercial distro's: +- Novell is in trouble +- we don't need to speak about Mandriva +- RedHat barely makes any earnings, even though they are the biggest + +a non-profit organisation makes sense to me. + +my whole point of this was to have a page with a list of people who had a +company or are freelancers in their dayjob and are willing to support Mageia +(non-certified), but are also contributors; so to instill confidence in Mageia +from a company point of view (small company). i believe debian does this, and +mentions that this is not related to debian itself at all, or something +similar. + +The sole purpose of that is if you want small companies to use your distro and +possibly donate if they feel like it. i'm not saying companies use this to +make money, they could just use it on their computer, or laptop or whatever. +companies or people who see free stuff, are thinking, but what if there's a +problem, who can i pay to fix those problems? of course they can ask for free, +but they know that they don't need to expect something if they ask for free. + +if Mageia want's to start a company based on it, that's another thing; but for +now, let's just focus on the non-profit org. +</PRE> + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001087.html">[Mageia-discuss] commercial support +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001098.html">[Mageia-discuss] commercial support +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1096">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1096">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1096">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1096">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |