[Gloucs] Mandrake bankrupt

[Guy Edwards]

Actually John, the words are "bankruptcy protection" (I'm a bit tetchy
about my fav. distro :-) not "Mandrake Bankrupt".

It's supposed to give them a breather to be able to restructure and sort
themselves out.

Also note that this wasn't the result of selling free software, more
down to the hiring of a corrupt/inept management team. er.. allegedly
(he adds, thinking of the online mailing list archives). 


On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 12:33, john mckeown wrote:
> Mandrake have filed for bankruptcy to defend
> themselves against the continuing heavy drain
> from penalty clauses incurred some years ago 
> in E-Learning ventures before the dot.com crash
> 
> http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2405
> http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/15/1727240.shtml?tid=147
> 
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