From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   > On 05/17/2012 07:10 PM, Adam wrote:   
   >> Does anybody have any guesses yet as to  what that might   
   >> mean for the future of the Mandriva Linux distribution?   
   >   
   > The development community will produce the Mandriva Linux   
   > and one supposes that Mandriva SA will combine some proprietary   
   > products to produce Mandriva Powerpack Linux which will be sold   
   > as in the past. It seems some progress has been made on Mandriva   
   > 2012 already but since I don't pay close attention to that phase   
   > of Mandriva (i.e. cooker).   
   >   
   > IMO of course, but you wanted guesses.   
      
   Thanks, Bobbie!  It sounds like there are a lot of guesses and "we   
   don't know yet"s floating around.  There are already articles   
   available through Google Search, and of course lots of info   
   continually being posted here in this NG, which I appreciate.   
      
   I know little about corporate structure and management, but my   
   impression is that the company Mandriva SA ("SA" is the French   
   equivalent of "incorporated" or "limited" or "LLC") is basically   
   going to let the Mandriva Linux distribution be handled by others,   
   so the future of the distribution depends largely on which of the   
   "others" end up in charge.  That was probably obvious to everybody   
   else here already.  I see the beta of 2011.1 is scheduled for the   
   end of this month, so I suppose my best option is still "wait and   
   see".  There's still the question of how Mandriva SA will get any   
   income if they're not selling versions of Mandriva Linux, but I'm   
   not going to worry about that yet.   
      
   Adam   
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