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Interview with Mandrake's Head Honchos

Posted by Hemos on from the talking-with-the-men dept.

Shipud writes "Newsforge has an interview with MandrakeSoft CEO François Bancilhon, and Mandrakelinux co-founders Jacques Le Marois and Gaël Duval. Among the issues discussed are a the business model for a GPL-based public company, Mandrakesoft's shares, the role of user subscription in funding, the bankruptcy, Xfree 4.4's new non-GPL license, and more."

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  1. Bigger than that by wombatmobile · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the value of the tale goes significantly beyond Linux. It's a business story with some template lessons for how to manage venture funding (and how not to).

    Easy lessons. Hard to learn.

  2. Re:They're french? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    France was opposed to the US invasion of Iraq, and since then, they have been declared "unamerican".

    Which is okay, because, as far as I know, they're not American anway

    Yes, but that comes as a huge shock to some Americans.

    I'm joking, of course, but only in part. Americans are particularly good at assuming that people in other countries think just like they do. This probably has something to do with the relative lack of other countries nearby compared to much of the world. In the U.S. one can live hundreds of miles (600? 800?) from the nearest foreign nation. Very little of their media gets into the U.S. either (the BBC and Telemundo are about it). And of course, foreign language (and thus foreign cultural) education are not emphasized in schools here in the U.S. In other words, there's a lack of experience with that sort of thing.