Interview With Gaël Duval of Mandrake Linux

jukal writes "Open for Business's Timothy R. Butler talked with Mandrake co-founder Gaël Duval about the company's past, present, and future. Worth a read, clip: "GD: For one year, we had a so-called "World Class Management" team that left us in a very bad financial situation, and engaged the company in ventures (such as e-learning) that we should never have been involved with. But that's all part of our history now, so I'd prefer to not dwell too much on that. ""

how funny

[geekoid]

is it that the saying at the bottom of the /. page was:
"All problems are the fault of the last person who quit, until some else quits"?

"problems? why, there the fault of world class managment, hrumph. hurumph. eveythings fine now though."

I don't know there situation, and this isn't a comment about Mandrake per se, but I founf the coincidence very funny.

Mandrake Business Plan revealed!

[KNicolson]

Plan v1.0

1. Employ "World-class Management"
2. ???
3. Profit!

Oops, that didn't work, let's try v2.0

1. ???
2. ???
3. Profit!

Re:how funny

[mandolin]

Around here it's "whoever did the last commit, even though it's been busted for months".

Reminds me of the two letters joke

[PaxTech]

The outgoing CEO sits down with his replacement and hands him two letters and says "You may get into some trouble you can't get yourself out of in this job. The first time it happens, open this letter. If it happens again, open this second letter."

Sure enough, the new CEO gets into some hot water in about a year and decides he has to open the first letter. Inside it says "Blame everything on me." He goes out and blames everything on his predecessor and the problem goes away.

Some more time passes and the CEO gets into some more hot water. He opens the second letter. Inside it says "Sit down and write two letters..."