Re: [MLUG] ESR

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 5/14/05, Shawn Parker <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> every sect needs their weird extremist. esr is ours.
>

s/needs/has/
s/ours/a grandiose self-promoter/

Seriously, I would agree his heart is basically in the right place,
and he has better writing skills than most free software advocates,
but if esr disappeared tomorrow, what exactly would change for the
worse?

Meanwhile, about VA Linux -> VA Software:

> > VA Linux went under and they all lost everything.  Or maybe the turned
> > into VA Software?...
> >
> > http://vasoftware.com/
> >
> > yes, I guess that's what they did:
> >
> > http://www.vasoftware.com/company/docs/2001_VA_10-K.pdf
> >
> > Looking at their quarterlies on p. 46, it looks like they were doing
> > almost no business and losing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

That one would be a bit unfair, since they'd just exited the hardware
business (which is where they started) and not yet had any new revenue
to replace it with.  Right now, they have a market cap of $100
million.  Their big product is SourceForge (yes, that one), but I
think their most visible corporate presence is...slashdot.org, which
they bought back in the day.  I see the whole company as a take-over
target for Google, when VA loses about hal of its market cap.

jking

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