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The Free Ryzom campaign is unsuccessful

Posted Dec 22, 2006 17:04 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
Parent article: The Free Ryzom campaign is unsuccessful

pity, tough i can understand the judge - the employees should be taken
care off as much as possible, and the open sourcing of Ryzom wouldn't be
able to give them a employed future.

what i wonder about is the extend to which the jury took the Free Ryzom
action serious, and whether he considered the Free Software aspect as
valuable? would the judge have preferred their offer over the commercial
ones if it where a financial tie?

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The Free Ryzom campaign is unsuccessful

Posted Dec 22, 2006 17:21 UTC (Fri) by vondo (guest, #256) [Link]

The judge has to take the interests of the creditors as basically the only criterion. Whoever offers to pay the creditors the most will be sucessful.

I don't know about the US, but ...

Posted Jan 4, 2007 11:57 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

down here in Brasil the employees are the preferential creditors in a
bankruptcy. So, their interests come first.