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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection</H1>
<B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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<I>Fri Oct 15 17:22:40 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On 15 October 2010 17:00, Marcello Anni <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">marcello.anni at alice.it</A>> wrote:
>><i> On 15 October 2010 16:22, Marcello Anni <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">marcello.anni at alice.it</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> >> I don't think any respectable Linux distro should go the Ubuntu way in
</I>>><i> >> the branding part. Promoting ourselves as just "Mageia" not as
</I>>><i> >> "Mageia, a Linux distro", even implicitly, is just wrong. People who
</I>>><i> >> contribute to the FOSS world still have ethics and "values" to uphold.
</I>>><i> >> I don't care if it's commercially successful or not, and we _can be a
</I>>><i> >> successful Linux distro_.
</I>>><i> >
</I>>><i> > i'd prefer a user that chooses mageia as it is and then he becomes
</I>>><i> > interested in linux and in its community (and values) than considering
</I>>><i> > mageia as a linux distro and not to trying it as he thinks it is too
</I>>><i> > diffult...  do you agree?
</I>>><i> >
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</I>>><i> >
</I>>><i> > Marcello
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</I>>><i> It's the other way around, the user is interested in Linux, for whatever
</I>>><i> reason: - economical, he can't afford windows
</I>>><i> - usability, he's tired of fixing his windows boxes... etc
</I>>><i> - ideological, he wants to use free open source software
</I>><i>
</I>><i> no, we don't want to search those people. the people that choose linux for
</I>><i> these reasons have already installed linux in their machines, we must
</I>><i> comunicate to the people that think "linux is ugly and  difficult to use" that
</I>><i> there is the best system around the world and that they didn't try it yet.
</I>><i>
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Bear in mind that those who searched will put more time/effort into
getting it to work, i.e. they're not doing it as a sort of stunt :)
>><i> then he looks for a distro and start using it.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Of course seeing an OS on a friend's machine may be an incentive to
</I>>><i> give that "thing" a shot, but he should know what he's about to use.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> more than seeing an OS from their friends (that is really useful anyway,
</I>><i> overall in the first steps), i would like to change the synonim linux=difficult.
</I>><i> if you change it (as it happened often to me), they say to you "ah, cool", but
</I>><i> they won't ever install it .
</I>><i>
</I>><i> cheers,
</I>><i> Marcello
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I don't see how that contradicts my point of _not_ promoting "Mageia"
but ""Mageia" the Linux distro"....
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Ahmad Samir
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