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Moving the goalpostsMoving the goalpostsPosted Mar 6, 2013 9:40 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Moving the goalposts by misc Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H) Let us see: Mandriva reported expenses in Q4 2008 of €1.5 M. In Q3 2008 it was €1.6 M (before the restructuring). I have not found better numbers. If that is enough to pay 50 employees for a year and build a distro, then Ubuntu might continue for some 5 years.
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Moving the goalposts Posted Mar 6, 2013 20:37 UTC (Wed) by misc (subscriber, #73730) [Link]
except that due to creative accounting and french law regarding equivalent of US chapter 11, most people were not employed by mandriva but by edge-it , connectiva and linbox, since mandriva contracts were better and limited to existing jobs, preventing changing the structure. Each of theses companies ( and in fact Connectiva count as 2 due to them having 1 offshore company for various tax related reasons ) were not counted in the financial results since "independant" structures. If you can read french, just go see how and why Edge it bankrupted and how Mandriva was offloading the debt on them, resulting into them disappearing. And simplifying the structure was one of the work done by the previous CEO Arnaud Laprevote.
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