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MandrakeSoft has never been profitable as any CFO would define it. However, I would say that they have brought many profits to the Linux community. Many of those are part of same community that have come into Slashdot and made a mockery out of MandrakeSoft's appeal to all the freeloading SOBs that have used MDK's good will and nature to the point that they are broke. A lot of them claim that MDK cannot make a dime because they give away their products. They do give them and more away to the world community.

Among many things that the company have been supporting out of their own pockets are the ones listed on this page: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/labs .

Some of those are KDE, GNOME, Plex86, Bastille Linux, Prelude, Aurora, CUPS, PHPNUKE, Linux Kernel Development, LinuxPrinting.org and the list goes on...

I am sure that the worthless fsckers that troll thru here will find fault with some or all of those. To you I can say now:

So, like, what have YOU done to help Linux grow and prosper?

Since I won't be back, I'll give you the answer: The answer is that you have not benefited the world community nearly as much as MandrakeSoft has in less than four years. If/when it happens that they have to lock the doors, it is going to hurt a lot of people and you are probably in that list whether you know it or not.