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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.
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.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
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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