On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 04:49 AM, Joerg Mertin wrote:
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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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.
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This has been done a long time ago. The individuals civileme was referring to have not been with the company for some time.
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 ...Again, they're gone, and have been for some time. That's the only reason why things are as "good" as they are now... if they had remained on board, I think MandrakeSoft would be history right now.
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...I don't think the "vampires" would respond as they have nothing to do with MandrakeSoft anymore. =)
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.
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