Mandriva co-founder ousted from Linux firm

[cuiq]

Speaking of being in the "red" didn't Mandriva also acquire Lycoris as well last year?

I have not used Mandriva since I had so many problems with the 9.0 release, but to oust a founder sounds quite dangerous. Although I understand the need to have a business model in place, what happened to all the Club money? Also I thought they already had business offerings in place with the enterprise software or is that a fairly recent addition?


Peace V

[redbeard]

I haven't read any suggestions that the ousted founder has any interest in this, but in the open source world having the ousted founder take the GPL code and start a new org to go the way he wants seems like it is always a possibility.

I really liked Mandriva up until this latest release. For some reason it is unstable on both of my machines. Ironically, this seems to be the opposite of what many others have experienced (older was less stable, newer is stable) so as the saying goes your mileage may vary. I've made the switch to Open Suse and feel very happy there. With Mandriva I always felt like I was watching PBS (US public TV) and not sending in a subscription. Open Suse for some reason doesn't make me feel this way.

[Richard_The_Lionhearted]

I have no opinion of this fellow's getting fired. It happens every day in the business world. I do however have issues with his supposed "new project" called Ulteo. Given I only have one sentence to go by, but it bothers me:

"It will be an open-source system, and part of the concept is going to rely on broadband Internet access."

As one of the unprivileged that are stuck with dial-up only by our geography, I find the assumption made by game companies (and apparently now other software companies) that broadband is as ubiquitous as, say electricity to be insulting. In my country most everyone but the most rural of rural have electricity, but there are still great areas that have no hope for any type of broadband access. Every inquiry in my area leads to "you're just not in the plan."

Does this mean that with the move to more "online-distribution" models throughout the software industry that people like myself will be left out of "the plan"? Sorry to hijack the thread. That comment just irked me. Carry on.

I agree. With me being also one of the 70% of people still stuck with dial up, I think that I as well as everyone else should not be discluded regardless of my connection type. I talked to Gael Duval personally about this. It took him a while to get back to me so forgive me if I'm late responding to this. Anyway here is what he said............

regarding dial-up people they won't be left out, but it's clear that the
Ulteo concept will take full benefit from broadband access or possibly
G3/G4 mobile networks, since it's the future of computing.