It's not a history of some russian ballerina named Mandriva, no, it's just another open source history.
For all of you who doesn't know it, Gaël Duval was the founder of Mandrake linux, soon become MandrakeSoft and later become Mandriva (Conectiva-Mandrake)by complete, Gael become just an employee in the company which the same one created and he help to found, Mandriva. Recently I read in
OSnews the news that Gael had been dismissed. Soon in MandrivaClub, in interview with François Bancilhon, CEO of Mandriva, it clarifies that Gaël Duval was not dismissed, simply they "let it go" (It is as I imagine that is a kind of fired or "lay-off").
Well, what world, is the same history of the Cisco founders and others sillicon stories. You make something great with something open in this case GNU/Linux and believe that will be a new begining but maybe just was a dead end when the bussiness take over.
I think Billy G, move their pieces so well sometimes, is funny cos i still feel that Microsoft is a good place to work, because they offer to you an stable and permanent job in a solid structure.

It's not so bad, I remember Mandrake was a Redhat with serious scripts and a fancy GUI distro. And Conectiva just a shame distro like Corel Linux, the same graphics problem, memory mapping and hardware recognition problems.
A good distro, Redhat and SuSE, without a doubts.
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