article: "Mandriva co-founder ousted from Linux firm"

[Senectus .]

On 3/16/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-6050243.html?part=rss&tag=6050243&subj=news
>
> "Gael Duval, a co-founder of Linux seller Mandriva, is among employees
> who lost their jobs at the company after it became unprofitable in its
> most recent financial quarter."
>
> The Ubuntu angle to the story:
>
> "The company faces competition not only from better-established,
> global companies such as Red Hat and Novell, but also from new
> versions such as Ubuntu that can be downloaded over the Internet for
> free."
>
>
> Gael Duval was mentioned previously on Sounder when his FAQ
> (http://www.indidea.org/gael/en/gael-answers.php) was published in
> reply to Mark's FAQ (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth)

There are some (understandably) sour grapes there too.. with a court
case in the brewing.
also it's suspicious that only the older staff are being sacked and
the large amount of new staff are still there...

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