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Updates On The Caldera IPO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

kerskine writes,"It seems that there's strong demand for Caldera's upcoming IPO CNET reported that they've raised their strike price to $10-$12. This news is in sharp contrast to more negative appraisals such as this article from Forbes.com." I only know of a small number of Linux Developers who got "The Letter" from Caldera on their IPO. Gotta wonder about that.

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  1. offers mostly went to kernel hackers by joey · · Score: 4

    According to this advogato article, mostly kernel hackers (including Alan Cox) got offers. Seems some apache folks ago got it.
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  2. Coming in from the cold by SpinyNorman · · Score: 4

    From lwn:

    We have just received information that Caldera indeed has made their directed shares program available to international developers, particularly in Europe but including other areas of the globe. In order to do so, they are working with multiple investment firms. Wit Capital is handling only domestic US accounts, which is correct, but Bank of America Security, LLC is handling International accounts. Bank of America can be contacted at 415 627 3115, 600 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA. Account forms are due to them via FAX (415 913 5530) no later than Friday, March 10th, so move quickly if you have this opportunity. We have confirmed participation in Australia as well.

  3. Re:Overvaluation of an also-ran - your opinion by haggar · · Score: 4

    This is just a bunch of biased personal opinions, expecially the Forbes article.

    They (and you) claim that Caldera has not contributed anything to the community. This is not true: they contributed and continue to do so, a lot of neat networking stuff in IP and IPX protocols. Also, they made NetWare for Linux (which is not like mars, but has a fully functional NDS v 4.x), an NDS client for Linux, ported Netscape FastTrack server to Linux, made Lizard and COAS available opensource...

    I think these are important things. Caldera has contributed to the Linux community quite a lot, actually.

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  4. Why, Taco? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    Why do you 'wonder' about that? I thought that originally getting into Linux wasn't about cashing in at some later date, but rather producing something for free. Redhat opened a real can of worms with it's little 'letter' campaign, and it really brought out the greed in people (the common mantra being "I work on package X...why didn't I get a 'letter'?").

    Since you didn't get 'the letter', what then? No one is obligated to get free stock...since when did the free software movement turn to greed?