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A Community Takeover of Mandrake?

sombragris writes "Ben Reser wrote an interesting opinion about MandrakeSoft's current financial woes. Reser maintains that there's no great value in MandrakeSoft's current business model and that the best course of action for Mandrake Linux would be a community or non-profit takeover of the Mandrake distribution. Sounds definitely interesting..."

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  1. Non-profit? by MeanMF · · Score: 5, Funny

    the best course of action for Mandrake Linux would be a community or non-profit takeover of the Mandrake distribution

    It sounds like they're already being run by a non-profit organization...

  2. WTF?? by JW+Troll · · Score: 2, Funny
    the best course of action for Mandrake Linux would be a community or non-profit takeover of the Mandrake distribution
    I think that the problem is that Mandrake is already non-profit. I don't hold much hope they'll rise from the ashes.
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