Comments on: 175,000 USB keys: the good news and the bad news

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By: thorvick

thorvick — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:39:40 +0000

Well leeloo, I’m not affraid at all to communicate in English. I live in the NL and English is the main language at work and at home.
I just wonder what the scope of Mr. B’s laments is. I haven’t seen him being proactive in a while and I think that this post is ridiculous. In those competitive markets, it’s a little like the speed train and the cows in field watching the train rushing. If you want to grab a piece of the cake you’d better be in the train. Unfortunately, Mandriva is in the field…
So here is a translation of my previous comment:
“Why bother communicating in English while we pertinently know that those kind of posts will only be read by French people. Mandriva doesn’t have the guts for wannabe international company and it’s not with that blog that it will get any credit.
With regards to the USB key, once again it’s TOO LATE and anyway, those keys wouldn’t make Mandriva’s financial situation better. Only proactive moves following sound market studies could beef up the general interest (for the company and more broadly free software…)
It looks like Mandriva decided to show some interest for the PUBLIC again (vs. Corp.). Very well, take all actions possible to get Mandriva bundled with laptop and desktop PC and sold in supermarkets (in France). When people will be used to see penguins in Carrefour, Auchan and others, maybe you will have changed something.
In the meantime, while waiting for a change (Mandriva knows how to do that) others are already ahead. Wasting your time witnessing the French sitting there and waiting for opportunities will not change anything.

By: leeloo

leeloo — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:57:46 +0000

>thorvick

You’ll be amazed how many people around the world read mandriva’s communications.

Do you know our website is first read in english then in portuguese then in french and on fourth position in Polish ?
Do you know that our distribution is translated in more than 100 languages ? (76 completely)
Do you know that when Mandriva organize an Install Party, our community evangelizes more than 30 countries around the world ? Russia, Uzbekistan, Spain, Venezuela, Cuba, China, Brazil, Poland, Romania, for instance ?

I wish we could translate all our communications everytime, so that the maximum amount of people can have the freshest news about Mandriva. And writing in French is IMHO resticting people from having information. If there’s only one percent of non-francophone readers to this blog, we need to think about them. Writing in english in this blog is not a way to show off, it’s the better thing we can do between our translating capabilities, our infrastructure features (I don’t know how Wordpress manage translations) and respecting everyone’s language.

By: thorvick

thorvick — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:34:39 +0000

Tout d’abord, a quoi bon communiquer en Anglais alors que nous savons tous que ces postes ne seront lus que par des Francais? Mandriva n’a pas la carrure d’une boite internationale et ce n’est pas grace a ce blog qu’elle l’acquerra.
Ensuite concernant le sujet des clefs USB, une fois de plus, c’est TROP TARD et c’est pas ca qui ameliorera la situation de Mandriva. Il aurait fallu devancer tout cela par des demarches spontanees.
On dirait que Mandriva a decide de s’interesser a nouveau au PUBLIC (aux particuliers), et bien distribuez en supermarches et a des prix competitifs! Quand les gens auront pris l’habitude de voir le pingouin a Carrefour, Auchan et autres, peut-etre changerez-vous les choses. En attendant, comme Mandria sait si bien le faire, se lamenter sur l’attentisme Francais ne mene a rien…

By: rbmp

rbmp — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:15:34 +0000

Why not do both?

Provide on the same key:
- the Mandriva OS in one partition and a data shared space in another (just like the Mandriva Flash is),
- Windows FLOSS in a third partition,
- MacOS FLOSS in a fourth partition.

Guess 4 GB would not be enough for all that?

Students may bring their data anywhere with them in their key, and depending on the workstation they have access to, use locally-installed MacOS/Windows/Linux or key-installed Linux.

By: FACORAT Fabrice

FACORAT Fabrice — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:13:18 +0000

What about Mandriva proposing a special Mandriva flash ?

1. the first partition as usual is the bootable system with Mandriva

2. the second partition (FAT32 ) contains the OpenSource softwares for Windows.

This way you could have both requirements.
Really Mandriva should contact them and propose this, and eventually start also lobbying others regions, especially the ones from the candidates ( Royal, Bayrou, Sarkozy, De Villiers, … )