"Duval details his side of the story: "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." Mandriva's CEO replies: "Gael was not fired. This term would imply something wrong on his part, which was not the case. He was laid off."
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Member since:2006-03-17
If he had any actual loyalty to the company I can't see why he wouldn't just shake his head and let them do what they think they need to do.
...probably because they had no loyalty to him. I don't know all the details or reasons for what happened either - but I don't fault him for the lawsuit, it's his right to file what he feels is right. And after his comments about the CEO's personal dislike of him, one can only assume that everything's not in the open.
Regarding the new start-up he's founding, that has nothing to do with Mandrake. He still needs a paycheck after his 'severance pay' is over - it may be a bit 'childish', but getting stabbed in the back tends to make people respond.. how should I say?.... unhappily? We're all a little childish, that's our 'inner child' feeling bullied. And everyone should agree that bullies are rotten people...
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2005-08-20
I don't know anything about the whole firing/laying off thing and people generally seem to have a very high opinion of him but stuff like this is just ridiculous:
So it's the end of the Mandrake/Mandriva venture for me. I'm just going to sue Mandriva for abusive lay-off, since I doubt that the real reason was economical for me. I have the very bad feeling that my initial project has been wasted and this sentiment is reinforced since I have alerted my president twice in 2005 about the bad trend in the management and business.
So, what the heck, he's just gonna sue them because he thinks they might be lying about something that isn't really his business in the end? It's kind of inconsequential, since he's starting something up on his own again, but if I was in a position to consider hiring him at some other company, such flippant litigation would be a huge reason not to take him on.
If he had any actual loyalty to the company I can't see why he wouldn't just shake his head and let them do what they think they need to do.