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Lineo near Death

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can't-say-i'm-suprised dept.

An anonymous reader notd a bit running on LinuxGram about Lineo about ready to croak. It paints a pretty bleak view of the Linux embedded system company. Oddly enough, I'm still not exactly sure what they were trying to do.

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  1. How can this be? by fmaxwell · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ten to twenty years from now, people are going to be shaking their heads in bewilderment about the attempts to make money selling "free software." They will react in much the same way that we do when people mention "New Coke".

  2. Bankruptcy. by saintlupus · · Score: 5, Funny

    It paints a pretty bleak view of the Linux embedded system company.

    If only they'd changed their focus in time. They could have been a survivor, like VA Ice Cream And Adult Novelties.

    --saint

  3. -1 Flamebait by somethingwicked · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oddly enough, I'm still not exactly sure what they were trying to do.

    Taco still says the same thing about the night he walked in on "those gross naked people"!

    Sorry, it was too easy a softball to leave alone...

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    ---"What did I say that sounded like 'Tell me about your day?'"---

  4. Capitalize? by alanwj · · Score: 3, Funny
    "recapitalized going forward and a new capitalization structure worked out with existing investors."
    So how come the whole quote is in lowercase? Or is lowercase their new capitalization structure?

  5. In other news... by jargoone · · Score: 2, Funny

    A revolutionary new program, and it wasn't even written by Microsoft:

    $ spell
    An anonymous reader notd a bit running on
    notd
    $

    How hard can it possibly be?

  6. Re:Simple Explanation by Otter · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'm not a CEO, but I am the corporate controller for a small electronics firm

    I'm wondering which is a worse sign for a business -- paying $40K/month to house 10 employees or having the Penis Bird Guy as your corporate controller. ;-)

    --
    What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
  7. Re:This is just flat out *wrong* by Nehemiah+S. · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's what you get for being at work at 5:30 PM on a Friday. If you'd left early to party (like any self-respecting physicist) they'd have had to wait until monday to fire you.

    And would probably have waited until the next friday, to "avoid incidents"; if you had left early then too, and every friday since, I bet you'd still have a job.

    The moral of this story is obvious ( /me looks at watch- one more hour :)

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    ... and there is no doubt, that one day he will be
    where the eye of his telescope has already been
  8. Problem with Making Money with Linux Services by Greyfox · · Score: 5, Funny
    Everyone talks about how you should make money with services. Well a few years ago, I set up a guy with a linux based web server and hacked out some scripts to keep 4 modems dialed out and bonded at the same time. Just recently I ran across his E-Mail address and sent him an E-Mail asking him if I'd pissed him off or something since I hadn't heard from him in ages. He told me no, and the machine I set him up with was still running great.

    Having to keep finding new customers is a royal pain in the ass. You're much better off with Windows, where they keep coming back...

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    I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?

  9. Re:Explain This, Please by grytpype · · Score: 3, Funny

    >SLC is pretty damned "major" if you ask me.

    I would agree with you, but I've actually seen SLC.

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