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The Upcoming Corel-Based Distro From Xandros
mutantcamel writes: "Michael A. Bego, the CEO of Xandros Corporation has given an interview
with Consulting Times. Xandros recently signed a license agreement with Corel that gave them access to Corel Linux." Bego holds off on a lot of specifics here, but says that what Xandros inherits from Corel includes a lot of improvements that never made it to Corel's since-abandoned boxed desktop distributions, and since it's Debian-based, will "automatically" run on several platforms.
About Gnucash and LGP: LGP signed a term sheet with Gnumatic in early 2000 to commercialize Gnucash. Many of the core Gnucash developers were hired, including me (I actually never worked on Gnucash until I was hired by Gnumatic, but continue to do so now).
LGP provided only a small fraction of the funds they promised and the term sheet was never turned into an investment agreement. Gnumatic's employees were all laid off or quit by May 2001. Gnumatic's founder, Linas Vepstas, continues to do business under that name in hopes of paying the large amount of back salary owed to former Gnumatic employees.
I found outside funding and started Linux Developers Group to do custom software, consulting, and possibly release Gnucash commercially. I hired the Gnucash developers that worked for Gnumatic. We have started moving the Gnucash code base away from strictly personal finance and into vertical apps; we are starting a joint venture with a POS developer (Global Retail Technology), for example.
Bill Gribble <grib@linuxdevel.com>
Linux Developers Group