On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 11:08, sda wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:36:50PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > One thing I don't understand is how people have interpreted Mandrakesoft's > > request for people to join the Mandrake Club as a plea for charity to keep an > > ailing company afloat. It is no such thing. The Mandrakesoft web page clearly > > shows Mandrake's financial details (as a public company, this is mandatory). > > They expect a profit by the end of the year, but at their current cash burn rate > > (which isn't extravagant, BTW) they can't do so without making some > > redundancies. This is how I interpreted the press release: > > You seem to forget that Mandrake promised a profit the 1st quarter of > this year. If you believe that `they're on track' you really are self > delusional. A company that is on track to make a profit, doesn't hold > out it's hand and plea for money.
I believe that Sridhar's point was that they are NOT holding out their hands with a "plea", they are moving to a subscription model of business; seems to me that YOU are the one that's delusional. You're just seeing what you want to see, or pushing an agenda that you want to push. It's already been stated elsewhere and here the details and advantages of the business plan they have; you're just not reading. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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