[Mageia-discuss] [Cooker] Re: Re: Transparency & open invitation to a united foundation..? [Was: forking mandriva]

Wed Sep 22 04:01:32 CEST 2010

+
+On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, gettinther wrote:
+
+> I cannot fathom why Mandriva should be involved so deeply so early in
+> the project life.
+> 
+> I guess I was more expecting Mageia to plan their future first
+> independently and only then approach Mandriva for a possible
+> partnership on equal terms, not the other way around. I do believe
+> Mageia must first decide by itself what it wants to be before pulling
+> other entities.
+> 
+> There will be always time for Mandriva, Suse, Fedora or even Debian to
+> join the foundation if they so wish, no?
+
+I have just read through the whole debate/argument on cooker with the 
+Mandriva CEO and I must say that if anything it has confirmed to me that 
+the fork was the right thing to do.
+
+Yes, Mageia would benefit in some ways from a partnership with Mandriva 
+since Mandriva would provide the servers/hosting/bandwidth but the cost 
+to pay in terms of dependence would be unacceptable.
+
+Comparing a potential Mageia/Mandriva partnership with Fedora/Redhat is 
+laughable since Mandriva is absolutely not comparable to Redhat (a solid 
+profit making company that understands the value of the community).
+
+I hope Mageia proceeds with the plan as laid out in the original 
+statement on the web site, particularly the following bit:
+
+"Mageia is a community project: it will not depend on the fate of a 
+particular company."
+
+Should this objective be broken, then I won't be part of the fork 
+anymore (I know I won't be missed but I'm only stating my POV here).
+
+