and then there were three?

[Net Llama!]

dep wrote:
> 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?

lycoris maybe.  and that Collins' distro  :)



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