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Updating navigation links for new press stuff. 2001-11-15 Dan Mueth <d-mueth@uchicago.edu> Updating navigation links for new press stuff. * advisory_board.html: * ballot-summary.html: * ballot_summary.html: * board_of_directors.html: * charter.html: * directory.html: * documentation.html: * election-2000.html: * electionrules.html: * elections.html: * executive_director.html: * faq-ln7.html: * faq.html: * index.html: * membership-form.html: * membership-policy.html: * membership.html: * organization.html: * overview.html: * template.html: Adding press release info. * press.html: * press/pr-accessible.html: * press/pr-borlandjoins.html: * press/pr-foundation.html: * press/pr-gnome14.html: * press/pr-mandrakesoftjoins.html: * press/pr-newcommitments.html: * press/pr-ney_execdir.html: * press/pr-redflagjoins.html: * press/pr-redhat.html: * press/pr-sunjoins.html:
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<h3 align="center">MandrakeSoft joins the GNOME Foundation</h2>
San Francisco - November 14, 2000 - MandrakeSoft today announced that it is joining the
Advisory Board of the GNOME Foundation, which aims to promote the GNOME graphical
desktop. Linux-Mandrake operating system has included GNOME since early versions and the
GNOME has recently become the desktop of choice for many Linux-Mandrake users.
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"We are delighted that MandrakeSoft is joining the Foundation's Advisory Board and
extending its commitment to GNOME ", said Miguel De Icaza, co-founder of GNOME.
"MandrakeSoft's market leadership role in the European Linux market and its strong
retail presence in the US will allow GNOME to reach a much broader audience worldwide."
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MandrakeSoft has long recognized the great value offered by the GNOME environment and
its ability to attract new users from the Windows world. MandrakeSoft also credits the
numerous innovations introduced by the GNOME project as one of the key reasons for the
worldwide success of Linux and the Open Source model.
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"MandrakeSoft has always been committed to support Free Software and Linux in
particular. Our entrance in the GNOME Foundation proves once again our commitment to
killer free-software projects", said Ga<47>l Duval - VP & Co-Founder of MandrakeSoft.
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MandrakeSoft affirms its commitment to the Foundation and to GNOME's bright future by
also announcing to financially sponsor several GNOME developers so that they may focus
on developing GNOME Office/OpenOffice for the benefit of the entire community.
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In a related announcement, Borland-Inprise today announced that it, too, will be joining
the GNOME Foundation's Advisory Board.
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<b>About MandrakeSoft</b>
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MandrakeSoft publishes the Linux-Mandrake operating system, based on open-source
development (which provides free access to source code published in accordance with a
General Public License, or GPL). Several hundred developers throughout the world
contribute to the constant improvement of the product directly over the Internet. This
international developer community has given Linux-Mandrake a product that is available
in over 40 languages.
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Linux-Mandrake is a very complete system with a choice of several powerful,
pre-configured graphic interfaces (notably the leaders KDE and GNOME), as well as more
than 2,300 applications including Netscape Communicator, the StarOffice suite, and the
Apache Web server.
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In a testament to its success, MandrakeSoft received the awards for "Best Product of the
Year" and "Best Linux-Distribution/Server" at LinuxWorld Expo 99, as well as the PC
Answers Platinum Award in April 2000 and the Linux Magazine Editor's Choice Award in
September 2000. The company has signed a strategic partnership with the American
publisher Macmillan USA and held the number one spot in Linux North American sales for
Macmillan USA in July & August 2000 (Source : PC Data).
<br><br>
"Born on the Internet", MandrakeSoft established headquarters in Pasadena (U.S.) and
Paris (Europe). Please visit the web site, http://www.linux-mandrake.com for more
information.
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<b>About GNOME and the GNOME Foundation</b>
<br><br>
The GNOME project has built a completely free and easy-to-use desktop environment, as
well as a powerful application framework for software developers on Linux and other
Unix-like operating systems. GNOME is part of the GNU project, an effort to build a
completely free Unix-like operating system better known as GNU/Linux or Linux.
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The GNOME Foundation will provide organizational, financial and legal support to the
GNOME project, and help determine its vision and roadmap. The Foundation is governed by
a board of directors elected by the members of the foundation: individuals who have
demonstrated a commitment to the development of GNOME through participation in the
development, documentation and promotion of GNOME. An Advisory Board provides a vehicle
for organizations and companies to communicate with the GNOME community and support
GNOME.
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Advisory Board members include Hewlett Packard, IBM, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Turbo
Linux and other leading technology companies.
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Additional information is available at http://www.gnome.org/. You are invited to
participate in GNOME, which provides many opportunities for individuals and companies to
contribute.
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<center><font size=-1>This site is maintained by
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and was designed by <a href="mailto:jpsc@users.sourceforge.net">JP
Schnapper-Casteras</a> and <a href="mailto:bart@eazel.com">Bart Decrem</a>.</font></center>
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