Duval: Fired, Simply Fired

“Fired. Yes. Simply fired, for economical reasons, along with a
few other ones. More than 7 years after I created Mandrake-Linux
and then Mandrakesoft, the current boss of Mandriva ‘thanks me’ and
I’m leaving, sad, with my two-month salary indemnity standard
package. It’s difficult to accept that back in 1998 I created my
job and the one of many other people, and that recently, on a
February afternoon, Mandriva’s CEO called to tell me that I was
leaving.

“Bad mood, yes. For two reasons: it’s a pity that Mandriva still
needs to fire people since we had put the company break-even in
2003/2004 et that it was decided that it should keep on that way.
The second reason of course is that I’m part of this lay-off. Hard
to swallow…”

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