Mandrake and the proprietary license

[Jan Wildeboer]

Alessandro Rubini wrote:
>>This comes awfully close to educating customers that you cannot get
>>proper services for Free Software.
> 
> 
> That's right, I stand corrected -- not only by this very message, though.

And I would like to add a possible reason for all of this ;-)

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/future.php3

Seems they are in financial trouble. And that is not caused by Free 
Software - it is home-made ...

Jan Wildeboer