Paris-based Mandrakesoft is buying Brasil's Connectiva for 1.8 M euros. This brings together two profitable companies who expect to be more able to market successfully against the big dogs, Red Hat and Novell's SuSE.
A shock to the Linux egalitarians, the consolidation of the Linux market based on simple economic rules should not be a surprise. It takes profits to open up the claws of capitalist investors, and cash to pay the electricity bills. Alas, there is and can not be a Marxist software utopia.
Peter S. Kastner
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