On Friday 17 January 2003 10:47 am, you wrote: > > As long as the company manages to emerge from bankruptcy. > > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/15/030115hnmandrakesoft.xml Phppth...that's bankruptcy protection. They are making money, just putting off (deferring) some bad debts from the past that are due. They refocused a couple of years back but made committements (a bad thing) which they are still liable for. I wouldn't give it a second thought. Let's play devils advocate. Even if they closed, the same people could start another company with the same structure and 99% of the same content with another name. The artist formerly called... It's Linux ie. Open Source. Don't sweat it. Regards...Martin