In addition to the higher cost, the UI required much more bandwidth than some other services (GEnie comes to mind). I recall preferring GEnie partly because they "wasted" less of my time with UI overburden.

Ah, GEnie, where K.BULGRIEN was on-line and preferred it cost-wise. When it went under, he made the move to CompuServe as 72707,435. Memories.

As is USPS, FedEx, UPS, shipping containers, etc., etc., ad infinitum...

Same here

Yeah, this whole thing feels pretty ridiculous. It also seems not altogether inappropriate for someone who jumped to conclusions to subsequently apologize.

Same

My absolutely hands down favorite task manager for Android: http://www.tinjasoft.com/ . It allows creating tasks in a tiered tree structure. When I was looking for an application to use years ago, I didn't ever find another that let me create sub-tasks of tasks on my phone. I've kept using it even though I've changed phones several times. I suspect most won't care for the fact that it was pulled from the Play Store because it's name irked *oogl*, but I liked it so much I paid for it on multiple devices before it was pulled, and I would pay for it again...

http://mytinytodo.net/ has simplicity that appealed to me even after looking at a lot of various host-able task management/organization applications. An online demo link is present on that address. The look-n-feel and simplicity overcame my angst about its no longer being actively maintained.

Mr. Duval said in his IRC interview...

"It seems that the company is going to address the corporate market more and more.... My opinion is that we should have stuck to the roots (individuals and SOHO)."

I have never seriously considered any other distribution since I bought my first box (7.1). Linux had not really arrived enough to replace my home Windows system, so I waited for 8.0 before trying seriously again. As a systems engineer working with UNIX systems, and after having great difficulty with UnixWare 2.0 at home, and lack of results with WGS Linux, I was glad to see Mandrake "arrive". I finally committed to Linux. Then I had an opportunity to manage a server for my engineering department and RedHat 7.2 with Mandrake 9.x, then 10.1, and now Corporate Server 3.0. I've tried others... and yet remain a Mandriva user, so something is very good over there.

For all this, I must painfully acknowledge that Mandriva just convincing in any role that touts helping the community. The user has been told that if they pay, they will will get help. The user says show me what I get for free, and then I will believe, and will happily pay when it really matters.

Mandriva has always offered more up front for the community in terms of graphical, customized tools for configuring the system so that the job gets done, but that is about where it ends. "After the sale" the user must largely rely on their own resourcefulness. The superiour Mandriva tools buy most users in, but consider that today, MandrivaExpert has 2600+ open issues dating back to 2003. Bugzilla is full of issues _never_ responded to. Corporate Server 3.0 has issues against it that have been in Anthill and Bugzilla for going on two years.

I say all this to say, Mr. Duval, you might as well not bother suing if you care about the community. Mandriva will either accomplish something for the community, or they will cripple along meaning well, but missing the main realization of how to hit big-time.

Mr. Duval, MandrivaExpert, Anthill, and Bugzilla all show that Mandriva does not know how to support the community. Mandriva will not make it big time in the Corporate Community based on my most recent experience with Corporate Server 3.0. Please do not prove to the community that they do not matter to you either. A suit will only take from that community. This organization can spend more time on long distance explaining how a problem does not fall within scope than it would take to solve a loyal user's problem.

Leave them be. They will either become of more value to the "root" community or business community, or they will not. Let them do it to themselves without doing yourself a disservice, and by crippling what little support they do provide "after the sale". They have not been connected that tightly to either a business or a community root inspite of what one might have thought.

Signed, a devoted, paying Mandrake/Mandriva user, today and tomorrow, but maybe, just maybe, not forever.