[svlug] Loki - The Major Linux Porting House Files for Bankruptcy

Jeremy Zawodny jzawodn at yahoo-inc.com
Wed Aug 15 17:16:01 PDT 2001


On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:05:00PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> begin Jeremy Zawodny quotation:
> 
> > How likely is that in this case?  There's still not enough of a
> > commercial market for Linux to sustain a mainstream business...
> 
> Also, the next fifteen times that computer geeks fail to comprehend
> the different types of bankruptcy proceedings -- and the difference
> between operating in bankruptcy and a dissolution & winding up --
> would someone please refer them to Nolo's Bankruptcy FAQ?

I hope that wasn't directed at me.  The larger point is that Linux
business have been dropping like flies lately.  And it's not just
because "the economy sucks" right now.  The business that folks hoped
would appear simply haven't.

How many commerical linux distributions will there in (in the US) 6-9
months from now?

Jeremy
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