Re: Would Mandriva appreciate our work?

Hi Attila,

I hope that you aren't in the same financial status as Mandriva. For appreciation better translate for Apple or Microsoft, they'll also pay you :)
Joke apart, I don't think that they give a dime about our work, I've always payed the Powerpack subscription myself.

I'm translating for more than two years now, and if I translate I translate for myself and because I like it. It's a part of my spiritual evolution, contributing freely to something I like and in what I believe. My wife always laugh about me saying that one day Mandriva will rise me a statue for my time lost translating those bloody lines :)) But her cynicism it's the Mandriva's appreciation for my work LOL

Anyway, don't expect anything from others, otherwise you'll get depressed.


Cheers and have a beer.


Kind regards,
Florin Catalin RUSSEN
Romanian Translation Team


----- Original Message ----
From: atilla ontas <[email protected]>
To: cooker-i18n <cooker-i18n-4qZELD6FgxheH41UXmfQsti2O/[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, 3 June, 2010 16:25:23
Subject: [i18n] Would Mandriva appreciate our work?

Hi, i was browsing forums. I have seen that Mandriva gives Powerpack
subscriptions to background contest winners and also to Mugs. This
makes me to think. I' m working for Mandriva Turkish translations for
two yeras almost alone. That is a hard work for just a man. May be
asking as a translator for an appreciation of Mandriva won't be bad
thing. Is Mandriva kind to give us a PWP subscription? I know, i know
firm is on very bad financial state but that should be not harm it?