SI Reasoning wrote:

> As far as I can
> tell, the current structure of Mandrake looks fine.... and if worse came
> to worse... they could bankrupt Mandrake, take all of the open source
> code and start another company without the debt load. But that has its
> risks too. For one, I don't think Mandrake wants to stiff its investors,
> that could severely cramp any post-Mandrake company. So my best guess is
> that they will bargain some of the debt down to something more realistic
> to todays economy and continue to build the business.

We might all feel a bit safer though if Mandrake's cvs were rsynced to
an independant location (or more than one), so if the worst does come to
the worst, all source code revisions are still accessible ... instead of
what could be pieced together from people with checked out copies.

Buchan

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