Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Jun 2007 18:38 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Mandriva has made a formal statement of its position regarding the recent Microsoft deals by other Linux vendors. "Up to now, there has been absolutely no hard evidence from any of the FUD propagators that Linux and open source applications are in breach of any patents. So we think that, as in any democracy, people are innocent unless proven guilty and we can continue working in good faith. So we don't believe it is necessary for us to get protection from MS to do our job or to pay protection money to anyone."
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2006-09-19
Ahh, the always watchful corporate police wants to know.
Well, don't you work for Mandriva? Then you know the history.
How Mandrake went from #1 distro to pretty much irrelevant and barely known distro.
Now on LQ forums, Puppy Linux has more threads than Mandriva.
I don't know if it's still like it was back then.
I haven't and wouldn't touch Mandriva ever again.
But it was like:
One couldn't get anything without being a club member.
And if people asked for something they were harassed and humiliated to no end because they weren't in the club.
Couldn't download new releases, couldn't get updated packages like KDE, X etc. because those were only available to club members.
Separate forums only available to club members and on and on and on. Pretty sickening.
Kind of like racial segregation.
And then when most users left, the company changed name and came up with marketing strategy, community distro etc.
Basically a crappy company with crappy management.
Stay away people.
There are many much better and free distros.
No need to give your money to Mandriva.
Yeah, once bitten twice shy.
And save your breath AdamW, nobody will buy your PR talk, that boat has sailed long time ago.