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Other businesses with high profitability

Other businesses with high profitability

Posted Dec 22, 2005 8:02 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Other businesses with high profitability by emkey
Parent article: Mandriva to ship Skype

So, it would be good if they sold dual-booting Windows, so that free software can stay alive? Or if they started e.g. doing contract killing, just to diversify business, it would be justified?

Mandriva has a core business which is selling a free operating system. If its users do not like what it sells, for example because they bend over for proprietary software companies, then they will go out of business; no matter what current management thinks.


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