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Changes in Lycoris
tim1980 writes "Joseph Cheek CEO of Lycoris has published a letter to their customers and the community. In the letter Joe addresses many outstanding issues that have gone unresolved over the past few months, and outlines major changes to Lycoris the company, the products, and future direction. Quote: '... During the past week I have felt that there are other unresolved issues with Lycoris as a company. In particular, I have taken a hard look at our current business model and whether it is sustainable or not. Currently I conclude that our business model is not sustainable, and have decided to make some other fundamental changes....' There's also a
forum thread @ Lycoris.org."
Who? whao are these people? how is Lycoris relevant? what do they deliver to the community? I read the letter as: "We make commercial software, built on non-commercial software, people don't buy our stuff enough, we messed up big time in a lot of places, and we are going to cut down products" Ly-who?
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Other than the customer service issue in not shipping to paying customers (that by itself is a big problem), Lycoris has never gained any following in the community. Lycoris is trying to make money selling Linux. Nothing wrong with that. But what have they given back to the community? They never made a profit selling shrink-wraped boxes. Well neither did Redhat (and they are the Linux market leader), but Redhat responed with Fedora and, after initial grumbling, kept their goodwill. What kind of goodwill has Lycoris tried to generate? So far the only buzz I ever see about Lycoris is just that.... buzz and PR releases, but not a lot of released software (at least none that gets any press). Has anybody seen anything from them?