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On Mon, 14 May 2012, Romain d'Alverny wrote:

> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:20 PM, nicolas vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org> wrote:
> > Yes I think it should be clear that Mageia doesn't do anything special
> > for Mandriva, which is treated like any other contributor, and is
> > independant. Maybe we can prepare a blog post to publish after the
> > announce from Mandriva to remind this and avoid possible misunderstandings ?
> 
> Yes, however I think we should not insist on the possible
> misunderstandings in our communication/discussion, but focus on the
> good parts, questions will come afterwise (and that's good too):
> 
>  - it's great, for everyone, because Mageia is a strong platform;
> Mandriva will benefit from it for their server product; and Mageia
> will benefit from it from possible Mandriva contributions;
>  - it shows that Mageia has reached quite a milestone;
>  - it's not revolutionary (Mageia is expected to be used for
> derivative projects), but it's cool to see Mandriva acknowledge what
> we did, in some way;
>  - of course, this does not impact how the project is governed,
> because it's unrelated.
> 
> If we keep on insisting at first on the potential misunderstandings,
> people will focus on that. And the core news is not about potential
> mishaps, but about a company that is using technology from a open
> source project for their own products.
> 
> Of course, if people raise questions, and only then, it will be a good
> time to reassure everyone. It's better to do it in this order, because
> it will let us know what are exactly the concerns of people out there,
> instead of guessing about these.

I think we should not wait for people to raise questions about this, or
it will be too late. When the announce of Mageia was done, I have seen
a lot of people comparing Mandriva/Mageia with RedHat/Fedora, although
the announcement was quite clear that it is not the same.

If we don't explain this clearly and don't insist on it, a lot of people
will immediately think it is the same as RedHat/Fedora, or that Mandriva
and Mageia will merge.