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Changes in Lycoris

Posted by michael on from the seasons-change-people-change dept.

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."

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  1. erhm.... by passthecrackpipe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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?

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  2. Lycoris by JHromadka · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've never been a big fan of the stuff. Tastes too much like poppyseed or chewing tobacco. :)

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  3. What IS Lycoris??? by advocate_one · · Score: 3, Interesting

    even their home page fails to give any clues to what they actually do... No mention that they produce a Linux distribution at all... just vague references to something called "SME Server" and something called "Desktop/LX". If you were just browsing around and happened up their homepage, you'd be forgiven for thinking that they had something to do with greenhouses... No wonder people are confused, the company itself is a bit confused as well.

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    1. Re:What IS Lycoris??? by BenjiTheGreat98 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Lycoris is much like Lindows (or whatever it is now). They aim to be very much like MS Windows. It was initially supposed to be a distro you could use to wean yourself off of MS Windows. It was the first distro I successfully installed when I first started using Linux a few years back. The times between release date where very infrequent and as I recall the distro just wasn't that great in the first place. It seems like it was kinda buggy. Of course I was a noob back in those days too.

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  4. Re:Mindshare... or the lack thereof by Otter · · Score: 4, Interesting
    But what have they given back to the community?

    In fairness to them, it sounds like they tried to put too many members of their "community" into paid positions without the revenue or system to support them. If anything, they seemed to have tried to share the wealth too much.

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