Linux Canuk, I got my information directly from Mandriva's website.
Quoting Mandriva's website: Pay special attention to 2005. ( http://www.mandriva.com/enterprise/en/company/backgrounder ) "History * 1998: First Mandrake Linux Distro created by Gael Duval; Mandrakesoft created by Jacques Le Marois, Gaël Duval and Frédéric Bastok. * 1999: Distribution agreement signed with MacMillan for the US and Canada, round of funding by VCs. * 2000: New management team of US professionals put in place by the financial investors. * 2001: Mandrakesoft listed on the Euronext Marché Libre. Departure of the US management team and return to the helm of the founders. Mandrake Expert and Mandrake Club created. * 2003: Beginning of Chapt 11 observation period; introduction of Mandriva Move the first USB based Linux desktop. * 2004: Exit of Chapter 11 observation period through a continuation plan and new round of financing. Edge IT acquisition. Introduction of a corporate product line with Corporate Server. French Defense Agency grants contract to develop an EAL5 rated desktop to a consortium including Mandrakesoft. EU Commission funds r&d EDOS project to develop new software engineering tools for Linux Distributions. * 2005: Conectiva acquisition. Mandrakesoft + Conectiva becomes Mandriva thus solving a long standing legal fight with Hearst Publication about the Mandrakesoft name. Introduction of the system administration tool Pulse, the first open source tele-distribution tool. * 2006: Introduction of Mandriva One, OEM agreement with HP in Latin America making Mandriva their preferred partner in that region, introduction of Mandriva Flash, the first commercial Linux distribution booting from a USB key. EU Commission funds r&d NEPOMUK project to develop new semantic desktop technology. * 2007: 3M€ raised in a round led by European VC fund Occam, Linbox acquisition. " Note the word "acquisition" Definition from WordReference.com English dictionary http://www.wordreference.com/definition/acquisition "acquisition A noun; 1 acquisition the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something; "the acquisition of wealth"; "the acquisition of one company by another" Conectiva BOUGHT Mandrake not the other way around. There was a legal dispute with King Features/Hearst over the Mandrake name, this you have right. But the name Mandriva is from the merging of Mandrake and Conectiva. MANDRake-conectIVA - Mandriva. After the aquisition both distro names disappeared becoming Mandriva a single distro. ~Devlin Linux Canuck wrote: > > > Devlin, > Conectiva did not take over Mandrake, but the other way around. The name > change was due to a dispute with King Features owned by Hearst over the > use of the name Mandrake which is their trademarked name for a comic > character, Mandrake the Magician. I believe that Mandrakesoft lost in > court and had to change the name and logo. So the name change was long > in the works and the acquisition of Conectiva in made it permanent in > 2005. Mandrake became Mandrakelinux for a short time before they took > over Conectiva. > > Yes, they went into bankrupcy protection but they emerged from it and > managed to pay 2.3 million dollars US to Conectiva, a Brazilian company. > Now they appear to be on solid footing. Both Conectiva and Mandrake were > originally based on Red Hat, but Mandriva now is sufficiently diverged > that it has spawned many of its own distro forks. > > Roy > > Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and .... free! > Support Open source. > <*,)}}+< > Only dead fish go with the flow! > > __________________________________________________________ > Connect with friends from any web browser - no download required. Try > the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger for the Web BETA at > http://ca.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php > <http://ca.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php> > > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
