The right thing to do for Mandrake! [LWN.net]

The right thing to do for Mandrake!

Posted Jan 16, 2003 9:20 UTC (Thu) by beejaybee (guest, #1581)
In reply to: The right thing to do for Mandrake! by gproux
Parent article: MandrakeSoft enters bankruptcy

" As the Mandrake product is totally free software, I imagine that it would be very easy for the current developers to let the company (with all its liabilities) die a peaceful way and build a new company on top of the ashes of the current one.

The new company would have exactly the same base (minus the servers and developers computers) but it would be "clean" of liabilities."

Whilst I agree that this would be a tidy solution, I think there may be legislation which limits the ability of companies to pull this sort of scam - which is rather common in such fields as the double-glazing & fitted kitchen businesses.

Imagine your feeling if you paid for goods or services which weren't delivered, then discovered exactly the same people offering the same goods or services having been freed from their obligations to deliver to or compensate you.

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