On Thu Jan 16  8:58 +0000, Adam Williamson wrote:
> MandrakeSoft is a commercial software company. It ought to be able to be
> profitable (or at least not burn cash so fast it gets near bankruptcy)
> through normal business operations. If not, it deserves to fail. This is
> the logic of capitalism, the system MandrakeSoft decided to exist under.

Of course, your understanding of capitalism (at least modern capitalism)
is somewhat flawed.  Yes, many companies that go Chapter 11 (and it's
equivalents in other countries) and die, despite the reorganization.
However, many companies go Chapter 11 and come out stronger than ever,
generally those that have fundamentally sound businesses but are haunted
financially by past misdeeds.  Mandrake fits that bill to a tee.

-- 
Levi Ramsey
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