Questions for Mandrake founder Gael Duval

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:23 am

I've lined up Gael Duval for an interview. Gael has requested we pre-record the interview as he believes his English isn't strong enough to quickly answer questions on the fly. He's also asked us to give him some questions ahead of time.

Post by **Patrick** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:06 am

Since no one is biting I'll add the first question:
Why did you start the Mandrake distribution and what were your original goals and expectations?

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:05 am

Q: How do you feel about Mandriva violating the GPL by the inclusion of proprietary drivers? Sure a lot of distros include them, but that doesn't make it less of a copyright infringement. Sure a lot of teenagers downloads unauthorized music off of P2P networks, but just because a lot do it, doesn't make it less of a copyright infringement.

My favorite!

davijordan · Post by **davijordan** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:28 am

Will Mille-xterm (ltsp on steroids) make it to this version of Mandrake. it is out for the 2006 version of mandrake.
thanx.

Patrick wrote:I've lined up Gael Duval for an interview. Gael has requested we pre-record the interview as he believes his English isn't strong enough to quickly answer questions on the fly. He's also asked us to give him some questions ahead of time.

Post by **Patrick** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:42 pm

Just remind everyone Gael was terminated by Mandriva some time ago. He now has his new company:
http://www.ulteo.com

jaz · Post by **jaz** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:30 am

1) Ulteo site says Ulteo is a new concept of an easy-to-use open-source "application system". What does this mean?
Is Ulteo an add on for a OS like stardock (???)was for OS/2.

2) Why has Mandriva & Mandrake been histically so unstable?

schotty · Post by **schotty** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:48 am

Q: When will we be seeing Mr T as your spokesman?

hellonorman · Post by **hellonorman** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:46 pm

I would be much more interested in his current Ulteo project. I am Much less interested in anything relating to mandrake or his stance on other issues.

Any questions that flush out exactly what Ulteo is, what it's goals are, what makes it different and better in his opinion.

btyson · Post by **btyson** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:07 pm

hellonorman wrote:I would be much more interested in his current Ulteo project. I am Much less interested in anything relating to mandrake or his stance on other issues.

Any questions that flush out exactly what Ulteo is, what it's goals are, what makes it different and better in his opinion.

I agree. Ultreo is the most interesting topic to hear him talk about. But I would also enjoy hearing his thoughts on Mandriva/Mandrake both historically and its current outlook.

I'd like to comment that I've been running Mandriva 2007 on one system for a few months now, and I've really been enjoying it.

An interesting feature of Mandriva is "LinDVD," a dvd/video player made by Intervideo, the company that makes WinDVD. It works great, but the first time I used it, it set the region code of my DVD drive! I did not like that! So I stopped using it and went back to mplayer.

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Questions for Mandrake founder Gael Duval

Questions for Mandrake founder Gael Duval

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