[Mageia-dev] Art, Logo and Branding

Fri Sep 24 00:50:35 CEST 2010

2010/9/24 Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com>:
+>
+>
+> It may be to our benefit to see if some similar growth models could be
+> applied to Mageia.
+
+My main reason to applaud the decision to start Mageia and also my
+main motivation to join this project is the fact that it is community
+driven and community led. That it is not subject to commercial
+strategies and/or necessities or even pressure and restraints. I am
+not interested to face this situation again that some manager tells me
+what I have to do because of a situation he (or his kind) has created
+or caused.
+
+If somebody thinks about commercial options I will only agree if these
+options are under control of the community board, not the other way
+round, and if this commercial part has a different name and brand.
+
+I've been suffering from this mixture of commercial and half-free and
+free Mandriva Linux for years, having to correct misunderstandings,
+unclear descriptions and articles which still today make users at
+events ask me, "why Mandriva takes money for their distribution while
+Ubuntu is cost free?".
+
+I don't want that to be repeated with Mageia.
+
+wobo
+