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Mandrake Clarifies its Future

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the isn't-that-geoffs-distro? dept.

fabiolrs writes "Mandrake Linux has an article in response to the message they sent on march 11th. They claim that because of user help they are "cash-flow positive"! That is great news since Linux community is now sure it will continue using one of the nicest distros available!"

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  1. Great project, great company! by joestar · · Score: 5, Funny

    I see Mandrake/MandrakeSoft as today's real innovators in the Free Sofware world. First they totally changed the approach of Linux distributions makers by giving more importance to ease of use for instance. Secondly, they have a business approach which is *very* innovative. I can feel something about Mandrake, I don't know exactly what, which looks like the best approach around here to conciliate business and Free Software while always keeping 100% compatibility with Free Software.

    The Mandrake Club is a great way to monetize a user base as large as Mandrake users. It provides many advantages such as StarOffice 6.0 (final version!) which has not even been released just because Sun seemed to believe in this club and wanted to give it a boost... The Club is also a great "tool" for users to ensure that MandrakeSoft will keep on delivering great products such as the excellent Mandrake 8.2 (which I use mostly on servers, but which is so nice as well to replease Windows on my laptop!).

    Great project, great company - you've got my support guys!! :-)

    1. Re:Great project, great company! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Monetize a user base? I never thought about monetizing anything other than coins, gold, silver etc.

      Good luck to them when they try to settle their bills by offering some of their users to creditors.

  2. Microsoft by slipkid · · Score: 1, Funny

    It seems like Microsoft is going to have to play nice now. They were making all this noise about how Linux would never make money (as if there were a Linux Corp. or something), and is therefore evil and not to be trusted.

    So since we have mini Linux Corp. companies running around with positive cashflow, does this mean the Linux is less evil? Of course if Microsoft does recognize this, it can only mean MS Bob for Linux.