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On Sat, 14 May 2005, Jonathan King wrote:
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/
very geeky of you. I also didn't like calling him "ours."
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?
nothing? he seems fairly replacable.
Meanwhile, about VA Linux -> VA Software:
[snip]
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.
Interesting. I guess they make money by advertising, is that it? I don't
pay to use sourceforge or slashdot as far as I know.
So maybe ESR still has some money kicking around.
Mike
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