and then there were three?

[dep]

begin  Michael Scottaline's  quote:
| NOT good news.  I've never used Turbo, but their failure [if true],
| while not totally unexpected, contributes to a sense that the
| "business model" for OSS might ultimately be doomed.
| 	I know some will argue that by it's very nature, OSS will survive
| (Debian, Slack, and others).  But developers have to eat and as
| "employers" fail, the plight of some becomes more perplexing.
| 	let's hope the bleeding stops here.

it won't. the big, master shakeout has been expected for some time. 
turbo was the distro with the most to gain from unitedlinux -- my 
guess is that they'll stay alive in some form, if just as the 
far-eastern sales office of unitedlinux. if unitedlinux survives, 
which right now i'd say is a mighty big if. (actually, not just right 
now -- it's been doomed from the start, imho, because of its "screw 
you" attitude toward the existing base of desktop users and 
developers, something that is, unfortunately, epidemic in linuxland.)

the real question is, when the smoke clears it will be red hat, its 
sidekick mandrake, and who else among commercial distros?

-- 
dep

http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the 
envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.