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Re: RE: Ga�l Duval sacked!

TheDoctor — Sat May 20, 2006 9:12 am

Author: TheDoctor

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 9:12 am

marco wrote:

nordle wrote:

He quickly setup a new project, ulteo
http://ulteo.free.fr/about/

I wonder what kind of project ulteo will be?

Software that produces pretentious, uninformative web pages?

Re: RE: Ga�l Duval sacked!

marco — Sat May 20, 2006 1:01 am

Author: marco

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 1:01 am

nordle wrote:

He quickly setup a new project, ulteo
http://ulteo.free.fr/about/

I wonder what kind of project ulteo will be?

RE: Ga�l Duval sacked!

nordle — Thu May 18, 2006 1:06 am

Author: nordle

Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 1:06 am

He quickly setup a new project, ulteo
http://ulteo.free.fr/about/

RE: Ga�l Duval sacked!

Rhakios — Wed May 17, 2006 9:05 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 9:05 pm

Oddly (or not) enough, I had already decided not to renew my club membership before the news of Duval's departure. I don't see that it makes much difference. Mandriva no longer offers me anything better than I can get elsewhere. As for the club's offerings, I find them long on promises and short on delivery.

RE: Ga�l Duval sacked!

alloydog — Wed May 17, 2006 3:41 pm

Author: alloydog

Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 3:41 pm

But these days, a company's only concern is the shareholders' dividends.
Forget the employees, the product, etc etc, just keep the earnings-per-share up regardless, even if it means layoffs and asset stripping.

RE: Ga�l Duval sacked!

marco — Wed May 17, 2006 11:49 am

Author: marco

Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:49 am

This is really terrible!

I followed the conversations on the club forum and many people are thinking to switch to another distro (like myself).

It is not fair at all to get fired from the company you founded. But on the other side, what is "fair" in the business world?

RE: Ga�l Duval sacked!

M-Saunders — Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:03 pm

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:03 pm

And it looks like he's going to sue!

M

Ga�l Duval sacked!

davecs — Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:42 pm

Author: davecs

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:42 pm

The founder of Mandrakesoft has been fired by Mandriva...

I have fond memories of Mandrake, from 9.0 up to 9.2, which got me started in Linux in the days where it was about the simplest distro for the new user. Indeed my present attachment to PCLOS was as a result of remembering Texstar due to his unofficial repositories for Mandrake at that time.

By getting involved in Corporate Takeovers and then the inevitable "staff savings" (ie sackings) as the inevitable duplication of work is shedded, Mandrake/iva lost its soul, even before Duval was fired, which just confirmed that point.

The former choice of the Home User, the former favourite of everyone outside the corporate sector (think Linuxquestions, Linux Format mag, but a couple of years ago) had already lost its way. It is trying to take on Red Hat and Novell/SuSE. I just don't see it.

Mandriva Club site discussion on this matter:

http://forum.mandrivaclub.com/viewtopic.php?t=47157&sid=f851c08aae50ae0af4eda276296d3ede

Ga�l Duval's homepage:

http://www.indidea.org/gael/en/