[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection

Sun Oct 17 10:20:48 CEST 2010

On dimanche 17 octobre 2010 at 03:11, LinuxBSDos.com wrote :
+> It's this idea of "community" that has been the bane of virtually all
+> Linux distributions. It's part of the reason that we have failed to
+> conquer the desktop. If Android were a "community" mobile distribution,
+> it would not be in the position that it currently occupies.
+> 
+> Instead of focusing on the needs of the community, why not start thinking
+> of building a distribution for main stream users. Think about how
+> successful companies design their products. Think about what has made
+> Apple so successful. It's vision and foresight. It's knowing what people
+> need and building it, before they even realize that they need it.
+> 
+> The whole idea of listening to thousands of opinions on how a
+> distribution should be designed stymies real progress, especially when
+> most of those opinions are not based on a real understanding of the
+> subject matter.
+> 
+> You get a group of people who have a certain degree of expertize in their
+> field, and get them to design and build a product. In this particular
+> case it should be very easy. Just look around. There are hundreds of
+> distributions that we can co-opt features from and then make them better.
+
+Contrary to android and macos (and mandriva) which are backed by 
+enterprises, mageia is a community project.
+So if you throw away the community, there is nothing left.
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+