Re: About Eazel and Mandrake

[Steelhead <brk@slip.net>]

I just finished speaking with Eugen Clement at Mandrake.  He
assures me that there were some changes at Mandrake, but
that they are "...far, far, far, from being in trouble or
leaving the market."

I have not yet heard any details on eazle, but if it is tru,
yes, we have lost a cross distrubution stabilizer.

my 2 cents

Bill Ries-Knight

Jean Francois Martinez wrote:
> 
> Last week we heard of Eazel demise, today there is an unconfirmed report of
> layoffs at Mandrake.  This is bad.  It also illustrates the fact  that the
> model for financiing free software through support could work on mission
> critical applications but it is dificult (at least with current maket size)
> to make money from support when it is for desktop or private user oriented
> applications.    I hope Mandrake survives since they have done a lot for
> improving Linux usability but they will have to reorient towards servers and
> business applications.
> 
> Since there will be no commercail desktop oriented distrib and teh present
> free ones don't care then there is a need for a free desktop-oriented distrib
> .
> 
>                         JFM