Re: Re[2]: [Security Firewall] Florins Firewall

On 3-Aug-05, at 8:45 PM, Info Xchange wrote:

> You are absolutely right!  BUT, I just have one honest question I  
> would like
> answered please.  Why were SNF, MNF, MNF2 Beta 1, MNF2 Beta 2, all  
> compiled
> and made available to anyone (not just Club members or members of this
> list), but ANYONE.  Then all of a sudden Mandrake became Mandriva  
> (in my
> mind indicating a change of management). With that managerial  
> change this
> particular product became strictly a revenue generating product.  This
> decision must have required some organized business meeting to  
> change the
> flow of offering the ISO along with your other products.
>
> Why did Mandriva decide to restrict this particular product and not  
> the
> desktop as Linpire is now doing?

I don't know and that's the honest truth.  I have nothing to do with  
MNF other than build updates for it.  I'm still not sure why I'm the  
moderator of this list.

No, there was not a change of management... Francois Bancillhon is  
still the CEO and AFAIK, the management from Conectiva has been  
merged in but has not taken over.  Remember, we purchased them.

Whether this was the intention all along, or someone had a light bulb  
go off at the last stage of development, I can't say.  That is so out  
of the realm of my responsibility that I couldn't even hazard a guess  
but I can tell you that there was no change of management.  The name  
change was just due to the merger and a good way of getting out of a  
lawsuit dealing with Mandrake the Magician (which we possibly could  
have won, but would have been very expensive to do anyways so the  
merger was a nice excuse to avoid a bunch of legal costs).

Frankly, up until the list was up in arms about it, I didn't even  
know that ISOs were not generally available.  I did not know how much  
it cost.  As much as I knew about MNF was what was required for me to  
support (and trust me, the 5 year support bit was a bit of a  
bombshell to me).

I wish I could answer your question better, but I just can't.

And that is, officially, and as per my other (official/moderator)  
mail, the end of this thread.

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