You are getting down-voted, but I understand your comment as the history of Eazel will become less known as time passes. The company was only around for a couple of years.

There actually was a business plan and it involved configuration services and remote storage of files and settings. I thought it was a pretty good concept and the success of various companies over the years providing these services validate our business plan.

As to why Eazel failed, well there were many factors. The dot com crash, Microsoft pressuring OEMS like Dell and Gateway to not ship Linux pre-installed and the return of Steve Jobs to Apple were just some of them.

It was no surprise when easel fizzled out. At the time i was really wondering where the income was going to be. But thanks for the nice file manager. Hopefully you got to work with hertzfeld. That alone would have been worth the price of admission.

Nautilus was just one component of Eazel's general push for a business-ready Linux desktop.

Helix Gnome?