[vox] ZA Reason closure

Brian E. Lavender brian at brie.com
Mon Oct 3 16:59:40 PDT 2022


On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 01:42:23PM -0700, Gilbert Coville wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2022, at 1:17 PM, Brian E. Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I see this article from a couple years back on ZA Reason closure.
> > https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/12/zareason-linux-laptop-shut-down
> > 
> > What was the linux company way back that supported Linux? I mean like 23
> > years ago?
> 
> I think you might be remembering VA Linux.  A version of its history is here:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeknet

I am going to go and pull out my boxes of old Linux Journals just to
check the VA Linux advertisements!

-- 
Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture


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