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Corel May Have A Buyer For Its Linux Division

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the business.com-cost-$7-million dept.

SimJockey writes: "Looks like Corel is getting out of the Linux distro business." According to an anonymous source, says the article, "a newly formed company called Xandros will pay $2 million for the Linux unit, a division that comprised about 14 percent of Corel's total business as of January 2001." The Corel distro did some things well, so good things may come out of this sale.

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  3. Fancy that! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I guess the 'Lets GIVE our product away' approach doesn't quite work, huh?

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    Get a clue, open source DOES NOT equal a valid buisness model.

  4. Xandros? What about Novell? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    I read here that Novell was buying Corel's Linux dist. I thought it was a done deal in fact.

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  7. Re:Ascii Spork? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



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  8. Re:Corel's Distro by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
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  12. timothy is gay? by timothy · · Score: 0, Troll

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