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Xandros buys Linspire?
Former Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony has put up an
angry weblog posting after being notified that Linspire has been sold
to Xandros. "I predict this was done to: 1) help Robertson drain the
company of its cash and resources. When I left Linspire, we had a very
profitable year and the company had millions in the bank. I predict
Robertson has moved this money to himself, family, and his other companies,
leaving Linspire's minority shareholders with nothing. 2) help Robertson
save face by issuing a 'Linspire Acquired by Xandros!' press release,
instead of living with the public humiliation that Linspire failed under
his leadership. (Although, being out lasted by Xandros isn't much less
embarrassing.)" That press release has not yet been sent out as of
this writing; we'll keep an eye out for confirmation of what's going on.
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Xandros buys Linspire? Posted Jul 1, 2008 16:35 UTC (Tue) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266) [Link] Am I the only one who read that and thought "wait, weren't those the same thing?"
Internet slang of the future Posted Jul 1, 2008 17:02 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] If "robertson" were a verb, it would mean "to use another company's legal department as your marketing department.""Barracuda is robertsoning Trend Micro." "ajaxWindows" is pushing it, though, even for Robertson. (Neither one of these companies shows up in the top kernel contributions list, though. If they had users, users would be reporting bugs and bug fixes would be making their way upstream.)
Internet slang of the future Posted Jul 1, 2008 17:45 UTC (Tue) by andrel (subscriber, #5166) [Link] The kernel contributions list isn't really a good estimate for number of users. Ubuntu have > 600 kilousers, but don't show up on the kernel list.
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