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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Member since:2006-09-19
That is simply uncalled for. AdamW has never tried to hide that he works for Mandriva, and has been a member of the OSNews community for a lot longer than you. You may disagree with some of the Mandriva decisions, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be civil. In any case, I'd rather have people from Linux distros participate in the discussion here than not.
I have nothing against him and I don't think I was not civil or was in any way personally offensive.
And if he can "pimp" his company's product on open forums then I can criticize and talk about his company and its products openly too.
I don't see anything wrong with that.
He is eager to defend Mandriva then let him.
Member since:2005-07-02
Well let's just say that "corporate police" was a little strong-handed.
I don't mind criticizing companies, but your specific complaints about the membership club were greatly exaggerated in my opinion. And then, when someone who actually became a club member posted to say he didn't really see a difference, you launched into a textbook ad hominem attack, calling him a drone and saying he had been brainwashed.
"Ooh, someone who contributes financially to a FOSS project, let's deride him!"
Yeah, right...
Member since:2005-07-06
The Mandriva forums at http://forum.club.mandriva.com/ are open to all and have been for, um, a couple of years now, I think. Prior to that, the situation was that non-Club members could read all forums but only post to one.
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2005-07-02
And if people asked for something they were harassed and humiliated to no end because they weren't in the club.
I no longer use Mandriva (I'm on Kubuntu now), but I can say that this is a load of hogwash. I never felt slighted or harassed because I wasn't a club member, and the only thing club members had that others didn't were that they were able to download ISOs earlier than non-member. Big whoop.
That is simply uncalled for. AdamW has never tried to hide that he works for Mandriva, and has been a member of the OSNews community for a lot longer than you. You may disagree with some of the Mandriva decisions, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be civil. In any case, I'd rather have people from Linux distros participate in the discussion here than not.