-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue 13 August 2002 9:38 pm, civileme wrote:
> I am more concerned with the folks who want to make mandrakesoft a > company like SuSE. SuSE would be history except that IBM and Intel > bailed them out last year for like $45 million. Yet the same folks on > the list want Mandrakesoft to shift to a SuSE model? Horsefeathers and > Applesauce! United Linux is three companies who cannot make it because > their restrictive policies hurt them and one which is(was?) a free > software company--the fact is the big sellers now are the ones that are > basically free software--RH and Mandrake. That is the market and no > amount of business philosophy is going to alter market realities nor is > it going to alter the true assets of a free software company which does > not reside in intellectual property. As something of a connossieur of changes and edits to Web sites to remove inconvenient facts from history, I know that if this page changes http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa/faq2 you start counting the spoons :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9WXJpdasIDb/2nMwRAg4kAJ9Fjdcq865LeL6pCLmip4xuHXuPzgCeIj6z hw/sJqx1Sdg5hQY8Rtdh4vc= =l5QE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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