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   Vince Coen to Bobbie Sellers   
   Re: Mandriva shutting down...   
   27 May 15 19:31:49   
   
   From: VBCoen@gmail.com   
      
   Hello Bobbie!   
      
   Wednesday May 27 2015 15:50, Bobbie Sellers wrote to All:   
      
    > Hi readers, posters and automatic tabulators,   
    >     Got this from the Team *Amiga* mailing list,   
      
    > In a "sad" event for people who love Linux, French tech company   
    > Mandriva is being liquidated, according to a notice posted by the   
    > company.   
      
    > Although Mandriva generated €553,000 in revenue in 2013, that wasn't   
    >  enough to make it thrive in  2015.   
      
    >    
      
    >     But as we all know though a company goes bankrupt the ideas   
    > live on in Mageia, PC-LOS and Open Mandriva.   
      
    >     Just as the C=64/128/Amiga live on in dedicated UGs and   
    > emulations.   
      
   Writing was very much on the wall in 2013 when they stopped development   
   after v2011 luckily I refrained from updating the Pro subscriptions the   
   previous year after the 2010+ release.   
      
      
   Vince   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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