Mandrakesoft To IPO

Cpyder writes "LinuxFrench reports that Mandrakesoft (home of Mandrake Linux) are going public. Good luck to them!" The article is in French - use the fish for an...interesting...translation. Or try out GPLTrans.

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Mandrake is a company that understands desktop

[Ukab the Great]

Red Hat simply isn't. I know people at Red Hat (many of them are in my LUG). They are absolutely stupid and clueless about anything relating to making anything usable. Mandrake makes many useful utilities that make linux easier for newcomers. The UI for the mandrake installer is far more competantly designed than Anaconda. If Mandrake IPO's, redhat's position on anything other than a server is pretty much annihilated.

Of course, given the track records of companies trying to put linux on desktop (as opposed to just to doing server closet support), Mandrake will have a long and difficult fight ahead of them.

Decisions, decisions...

[Guppy06]

So, if we want to give money to Mandrake (beyond just forking over cash for their distro), should we take the selfless route and donate through Paypal, or do we take the mildly selfish route and buy a few shares of it?

At any rate, I love Mandrake. I never thought I could ever love a bunch of Frogs this much. Personally, I think that if any distro is going to successfully conquer the laptop, it will be Mandrake.

Leaked info under NDA?

[Max von H.]

It seems this info wasn't really supposed to be public for a while, according to a poster on the site who noted the first paragraph of the announcement was missing:

"This letter is sent to all Mandrakesoft shareholders and employees. It gives more details about MandrakeSoft IPO plans. Please keep this letter private - you can say that we do an IPO, but you cannot give any detail until we get the COB agreement."

Can anyone from Mandrake confirm this? For those who don't know, the COB is the French equivalent to the SEC. I'd hate to see the guys at Mandrake get into trouble for that...

/max