[Mageia-dev] Art, Logo and Branding

Thu Sep 23 18:48:35 CEST 2010

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 01:22 +0200, Tux99 wrote:
+> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, [UTF-8] Marc ParÃ© wrote:
+> >
+> > Best to have these discussions at the initial stages of the project 
+> > rather than later after everything has been firmed up. It is certainly 
+> > harder/painful to change name and logos after they have been adopted.
+> >
+> > Just in case, you never know, Mageia could actually become a good 
+> > contender in the top listed distro market. It certainly has the momentum 
+> > at this time.
+> >
+> > Marc
+> 
+> Maybe you don't realise it, but the momentum would be quickly lost if 
+> you start to pollute the original objectives with commercial aims, a 
+> large part of the enthusiasm is BECAUSE Mageia is non-profit.
+> 
+> I would not contribute to Mageia (neither money nor time) if it becomes 
+> for-profit and I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one.
+> 
+> I really hope that the foundation charta makes this very clear (the 
+> non-profit scope) else it would cause a lot of momentum to evaporate.
+> 
+> Again, Debian or the Linux kernel project are IMHO the examples to 
+> follow, nothing else.
+
+I agree; The only reason I came over to Mageia was its not for profit
+open community nature.
+
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