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It's amusing how VA has gone from a company that made and sold Linux systems, to a company that makes and sells funny T-shirts to people who use Linux systems.
by ben1040 12y ago
It's amusing how VA has gone from a company that made and sold Linux systems, to a company that makes and sells funny T-shirts to people who use Linux systems.
- zeruch 12y agoVA as its initial raison d'etre went dead with the purging of the hardware division (disclosure, I am a biased bastard who worked at VA from 1998 - 2002 and have a deep romanticized attachment to the people and events of that period). Everything after was something pretending to it (or in the case of Sourceforge.net for several years, surviving as a remnant in an otherwise unrelated shell).
- Patrick_Devine 12y agoThis pains a lot of us who used to work at VA. It was a combination of the dot com bubble bursting and mismanagement which caused everything to implode. I remember saying at the time "if we can't make money during the largest economic upswing ever, when the hell are we going to make money?" I think if we'd had any kind of fiscal responsibility we might have been able to survive the rocky years. At the time though, the idea was to ditch manufacturing and put everything behind SourceForge. In retrospect, that probably wasn't a horrible idea, except for that someone got the bright idea that the only way to for SourceForge to make money was to sell banner ads. I think GitHub proved that was a bad idea.