Re: Announcing Mageia, a fork of Mandriva Linux

2010/9/20 Catalin Florin RUSSEN <cfrussen-/[email protected]>:
> Dear all,
>
> Frankly I'm a little bit skeptical about this move. From a practical point of
> view I don't see how the same team, that was fired from Mandriva SA for bad
> results (more than 30 million of Euros lost in 7 years) will mark a success with
> a "community" project.

I think this is your main error:

1. The persons who are founding Mageia had their contracts with
Edge-IT, a part of the Mandriva SA group. Edge-IT was closed down by
Mandriva SA management. Most of the employees of Edge-IT were offered
new contracts with Mandriva SA, which they refused. So it's quite
clear that they were not fired because of any bad performance.

2. The developpers and engineers of that team were not involved in
decisions which led to the bad financial results. These decisions were
made by previous and current management.

3. All persons responsible for the bad results of the company Mandriva
have either left the company long before or are still in their leading
position in the Mandriva SA management. They have nothing to do with
Mageia.

wobo