On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 08:21, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > T. Ribbrock schrieb am Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:09:04 +0200: > > >I sincerely hope, that MDK is never forced to go down that route. > > I think you are mixing MandrakeSoft and Debian. MandrakeSoft has a > different business model than Red Hat or SuSE but they are still a > company which has to hand out pay checks each month (mine was a bit > late this month!). > > If they do what they say on their site, like "looking on different > business models to check how they are compatible to our commitment to > Open Source and Free Software" the this is absolutely ok. > > And what road Mandrake goes down is in the future, nobody can tell. But > consider this: As a company head, would you have sold Mandrake last > February to a bidder? Mandrake management did not sell when the going > got tough. This is one point we should all bear in mind. If Mandrake > management would have preferred the easy way out, we would all be using > Debian now :-) I agree fully with you WoBo, and heck, you say "If Mandrake management would have preferred the easy way out"... I say, if they had, they would have turned tail and run some long time ago, if anything, they have earned my trust as folks truly trying to do "the _best_ thing" for GNU-Linux as well as their stock and bond holders, in the long term too, not just trying to get a buck this week.
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