On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 09:24, Levi Ramsey wrote: > On Thu Jan 16 8:58 +0000, Adam Williamson wrote: > > MandrakeSoft is a commercial software company. It ought to be able to be > > profitable (or at least not burn cash so fast it gets near bankruptcy) > > through normal business operations. If not, it deserves to fail. This is > > the logic of capitalism, the system MandrakeSoft decided to exist under. > > Of course, your understanding of capitalism (at least modern capitalism) > is somewhat flawed. Yes, many companies that go Chapter 11 (and it's > equivalents in other countries) and die, despite the reorganization. > However, many companies go Chapter 11 and come out stronger than ever, > generally those that have fundamentally sound businesses but are haunted > financially by past misdeeds. Mandrake fits that bill to a tee.
Uh, no, thanks for playing. I've been reading The Register since the middle of the dot.com boom, I know all about various types of bankruptcy (protection) ;). I was just considering worst case scenarios. -- adamw
