On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:19, Michael Hasenstein wrote:

George Walsh wrote:

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.... inspite of Mandrake's overwhelming market position in Britain and Europe -...

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Overwhelming what???

Sadly more and more, "market position" means "is sold in the stock market", not "actually creates and sells a product"; a company can thrive for years while not producing anything of value if they can keep on selling stock. With that siad, Mandrake provides a decent distribution and I hope they do not sell ou their users for their investors. They already traded the Tux emblem in for something more to the liking of their bean counter customers. Home users of Linux, be counted; let your distro know you are out there. There is a disturbing trend in Linuxland to conclude that there is not much of a home market. mg power to the PEOPLE!!!

It's a cute dinosaur. On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:59, Doug McGarrett wrote:

SuSE has also traded its TUX logo in, for the stupid dinosaur. Tux doesn't even come up on the boot-select anymore.

At 21:35 05/04/2002 -0400, mike wrote:

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On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:19, Michael Hasenstein wrote:

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George Walsh wrote:

...

.... inspite of Mandrake's overwhelming market position in Britain and Europe -...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Overwhelming what???

Sadly more and more, "market position" means "is sold in the stock market", not "actually creates and sells a product"; a company can thrive for years while not producing anything of value if they can keep on selling stock.

With that siad, Mandrake provides a decent distribution and I hope they do not sell ou their users for their investors. They already traded the Tux emblem in for something more to the liking of their bean counter customers.

Home users of Linux, be counted; let your distro know you are out there. There is a disturbing trend in Linuxland to conclude that there is not much of a home market.

mg power to the PEOPLE!!!

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On Sunday 05 May 2002 3:51 pm, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:

** Reply to message from mike on Sun, 5 May 2002 20:55:39 -0400

** It's a cute dinosaur.

er, as someone from the closer to the equatorial bit of the world, I must insist , it's a GEEK-O rather like our much beloved geko's; small fast and very smart ! In all a survivior!

Ummmm. It's a chamelion isn't it. Changes it's colour and hunts by stealth. David.