I was wondering where you are ... This List isn't the same without you ...
Regarding your Mail. I do agree that something needs to be done and I will do so. But as a developper, I do not like much Workarounds - as the main issue here are the Head People (Top Management) that screwed - and they need to be made responsible for their mistakes.
civileme wrote:
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Well - the Problem with these Venture capitalist is that you need to hire Managers/Directors/Consultants etc. and to pay them - unfortunatly - they do not really bring something productive into the company. The company then has to lay off appro. 2 Employees/Manager, 6 Employees/Consultant, 30 Employees per Director to pay their salaries/fees - and that's why I lost total respect on those people. They may restructure the Company, but they break quite heavily what existed before, lay off the expertise that is required to sustain them as they do not think in Term of Knowledge - but only in terms of Cash.Then arrived the venture capitalists.... They invested monies but wanted an international team of executives to manage the company. Such a team was acquired.Under that team, the expenses went up about 400% without a concomitant increase in revenue. The direction was modified from a linux distributor to an internet education company with a hook to linux.
Even in the Company I work now - we feel the same level of problems (When I started, Europe had about 990 Employees, now about 300 are left).
My Idea would be to reset the Mandrake-Soft into a GPL'd System - Similar to the Debian group - and continue. As long as these Directors/Managers will be there - they will shout for Cash, Income etc. without really contributing something to it.
Remember - everywhere you have High Level Managers/Directors etc. - there is a potential guy with no real understanding on the matter that can blow it. And the Day they leave a company - they get even paid for leaving it... We should make them responsible for the Live of a company with their personal goods ! In this way - they'd be looking at what they screw ! or not ...
So - the only sure way to have something survive that actually has a very high impact and is loved by the People who use it - is to keep it small - and lay off all these unneeded Directors/Consultants that are to be considered as vampires sucking out the living substance of what is a healthy company.
Having people who know how it works, with a little bit on Finance knowledge - should be enough to get a company up and running within the selfsustaining costs.
Just my 2cents...
PS: If someone from Mandrakesoft could forward this to the "Vampires" and tell me what they Think - I'd be happy to know their answers.
Cherio
The Smurph
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