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Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business

Posted by timothy on from the cost-of-doing-business dept.

Julie188 writes: As you probably heard by now, Linux company Mandriva has finally, officially gone out of business. The CEO has opened up, telling his side of the story. He blames employee lawsuits after a layoff in 2013, the French labor laws and the courts. "Those court decisions forced the company to announce bankruptcy," he said.

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  1. Re:So, the other side? by bzipitidoo · · Score: 1, Troll

    So? You think running a successful business takes some kind of extra special skill set? Higher levels of skill, talent, and perseverance than earning a PhD, and/or making a discovery, advancing science? More than it take to create and play a hit song or write a best selling book? But it seems more and more that the most important things successful businesspeople have are connections, and the skills and willingness to finesse the legal system to bribe the powerful and cheat the most vulnerable.

    Lots of things are tough. Doing the right thing is one of the them.

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    Intellectual Property is a monopolistic, selfish, and defective concept. It is "tyranny over the mind of man"
  2. This would be justice by reboot246 · · Score: 1, Troll

    The employees who were not laid off in 2013, but who lost their jobs when the company went bankrupt, should find the former employees who sued the company and beat the living shit out of them for costing them their jobs.