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MandrakeSoft's Status Update
joestar writes "MandrakeSoft today posted an update letter from its CEO about the company's health. Among other things, it's interesting to learn that the company seems to be on the good track to go out of the "chapter-11 protection" before the end of the year, that it's taking part to several publicly-funded research projects, and that Mandrake 9.1 is having a good success. They also thank for the warm support they received from the community. Worth a read for all Mandrake fans, like myself. Viva la Mandrake!"
If they go out of Chapter 11, does that mean that my 175 shares of mandrake stock will be worth anything? It was doing okay, until they went bankrupt.
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Downloaded, tried it, and I liked it... was much more for home users than say Red Hat 9. Unfortunately Ximian Desktop 2 doesn't support it yet so I put on my redhat and resorted to primate behavior with Ximian.
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Free your mind.
MandrakeSoft CEO: We're not quite dead!
SCO: Since the near fatal wounding of MandrakeSoft--
CEO: We're getting better!
SCO: For, since MandrakeSoft... who, when they seemed about to recover, suddenly felt the icy hand of lawsuits upon them,...[ugh]
CEO: Oh, we're bankrupt!
SCO: And I want MandrakeClub to look upon me... as their own CEO -- in a very real, and legally binding sense.
Everybody knows that the Germans are Much better engineers than the French (maybe THE BEST IN THE WORLD)
Germans: Great Engineers, Physicists, Mathematicians, Philosophers, etc
Frenchies: Great Musicians, Painters, Cooks, Winemakers, Writers
BTW I am neither German nor French
Mandrake was a French distro....so it will never die.
Surrender, yes, but die? Never (pronounced: Nev'air!)
we are happy to report that since January MandrakeSoft has been 'cash-flow positive'. Our immediate goal is to exit from this status before the end of the current year.
Okay, either there's a small mistake in that statement, or I think I may have found their problem ;)
TPF
There's Group-captain Lionel Mandrake, from the movie "Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb". He's the RAF officer who tries to stop the American General Ripper from launching a full-scale nuclear war. Perhaps it's supposed to signify their relationship to a certain someone?
;)
General Ballmer: Mandrake, do you recall what Stallman once said about code?
Group Capt. Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no.
General Ballmer: He said code was too important to be left to the corporations. When he said that, 30 years ago, he might have been right. But today, code is too important to be left to hackers. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow GNU/Communist infiltration, GNU/Communist indoctrination, GNU/Communist subversion and the international GNU/Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious source code.
...
General Ballmer: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to open-sourcing OSes, why, there are studies underway to open-source web browsers, spreadsheets, mail clients, compilers, drivers, servers... games. Games, Mandrake, children's games.
Group Capt. Mandrake: Lord, Jack.
General Ballmer: You know when open-sourcing first began?
Group Capt. Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.
General Ballmer: Nineteen hundred and eighty-four. Nineteen eighty-four, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war GNU/Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign license is introduced into our precious source codes without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core GNU/Commie works.
Group Capt. Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen, tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory?
General Ballmer: Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
Group Capt. Mandrake: Hmm.
General Ballmer: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.
Group Capt. Mandrake: Hmm.
General Ballmer: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
Group Capt. Mandrake: No.
General Ballmer: But I... I do deny them my essence.
It fits perfectly!
If you really want to get away from that wimpy GUI-ness what you need is a real operating system. ;-)
Personally I consider Mandrake's gui configuration stuff less of a problem and more of a time saver.
Extra Time=Fun mmmmm fun.
Quack, quack.
Depends, if the women who participate can be shared like GPL software, this might be interesting :)
Huh? At a guess all the club members joined the club - how else would they be club members?