Lineo near Death

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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Simple Explanation

[Dead Penis Bird]

It was also reportedly spending $40,000 a month on an office in San Mateo, California to house 10 people

It's simple why this company is going bankrupt. It's poor management like in the example above. There are likely to be many others like it.

It's time business retreats from the glitz and gets back to basics: making money.

Yes, odd indeed

[TheGreenLantern]

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

Which pretty much explains why they are going under, doesn't it? If you can't get your point across to those that are interested in what you are doing, you have no hope when it comes to the rest of the world.

This is just flat out *wrong*

[BurritoWarrior]

n fact, a fair number of the last paychecks of the 50 people laid off reportedly didn't clear the bank. Paychecks paid to current employees at the end of March didn't have any funds to cover them either and automatic deposits weren't made.

The people in charge know long before all the money runs out that things are in bad shape. It doesn't sound like they notified any of their employees or gave them any warning so that they could look for other jobs.

Cripes. People have bills to pay and families to feed. Doesn't anyone have a shred of decency anymore?

Re:How can this be?

[JordoCrouse]

Somebody mod this back up... He's an idiot, but he would be right, if thats all they were doing.

But you see, they wern't selling free software. They were trying to sell closed source software leveraged off of free software, and (more importantly) the expertise to combine the two.

They failed because of their they way they ran their business, and many, many management missteps along the way.

If Redhat goes under, then you might question the intellegence of selling free software, until then, don't give the Lineo management so much credit. Put the blame where it belongs: not on "free" software, but rather really bad business.