From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2012-05-18, Adam  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   There WAS a user version of Mandriva set up already. It is called   
   Mageia, which has a bunchof the old Mandriva developers on it as well.   
    It would seem silly to now have yet another user controlled version.   
   So why does't Mandriva SA come to some agreement with Mageia. Or is   
   there too much bad blood for that. I am not sure that we have enough   
   "volunteers" in the community to do both Mageia and MandrivaFree.   
      
      
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   > Adam   
      
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