Who Should Help LinuxFund Distribute $126,155.29?

Roblimo writes "The LinuxFund Web site was down for several months, and the project has essentially been out of business since last year. But MBNA kept the LinuxFund MasterCard going, and kept depositing money in LinuxFund's account -- to the tune of $126,155.29 when NewsForge reporter Jay Lyman finally caught up with the current and former project leaders and found out what was going on -- namely nothing. So does anyone have an idea what to do with this money? Want to suggest an individual or group to take over LinuxFund and run it right?"

Comments

You can count on me

[waynegoode]

Uh, I volunteer to help distribute the money. Just deposit it in my PayPal account and I'll take care of the rest.

Obvious

[rackhamh]

I hear Bill Gates needs some assistance with his open source initiatives.

Missing change

[DarthVeda]

So THAT'S where all the tenths of a penny in my company's accounting software have gone!

Re:Missing change

[lbmouse]

Ok! Ok! I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.

Re:Missing change

[rackhamh]

Actually, somebody at LinuxFund made a rounding error. Tomorrow we'll learn that the entire building has burned down (except for a red stapler that miraculously survives), and that weird mumbling guy in Corporate Accounts has gone missing.

Licenses

[Anonymous Coward]

That would buy 180 SCO licenses, with a few hundred dollars left over.

Obviously, decide this via a Slashdot poll!

[Cr0w T. Trollbot]

Who should get the LinuxFund Money?

• Linus Torvalds
• The Free Software Foundation
• EFF
• The Homeless Lunix Programmers Fund
• Divy it up according to lines of code contributed to the kernal
• CowboyNeal

Crow T. Trollbot

$126,155.29

[RetepMc]

Hello Sir,

I have $126,155.29 of unused donations that I cannot access. Please give me your bank account number and all of your other personal information, and i will deposit the enitre amount in your account. Once it is received, all i ask is that you send me back 50%, leaving 50% for your troubles. Thanks.

Re:$126,155.29

[rackhamh]

Come on, nobody would fall for that!

Try misspelling a few words, that should do the trick.

SLASHDOT POLL!

[Colin Smith]

Come on people, keep up.

Oh and you can put my name instead of the CowboyNeal option.

Give it to the Human Fund

[drsmack1]

Money for people

Buy source code!

[Trigun]

pick a software component that the OSS doesn't have an alternative to, and buy it.

Re:We could get

[vsprintf]

180 SCO licenses for that money...

At the going-out-of-business sale, that covers the 29 cents. Now what about the other $126,155?

419 it obviously

[carldot67]

Dear Dr Obedience Oleweh

I am Mr Lyman from Linux Credit Card. Recently the business was closed due to an unfortunate incident, leaving 126,000 (ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX THOUSAND) US DOLLAR in the account.
I cannot get these funds to their ritghful owners as I am listed as the official company solicitor. Therefore I need a trusted associate with Western Union Credit transfer to do it for me.
If you do this small job for me you will be able to keep half (SIXTY-THREE THOUSAND) US DOLLAR in your bank account.
For your security I need to set up the right bank transfer in your name. Please send me your local bank detail in Lagos right away plus a Western Union Bank money transfer of 500.00 US DOLLAR to cover my costs. I cannot be seen to pay the costs myself you understand as it would appear on the accounts.
God be with you and peace my brother.
My Lyman
New York, USA.

Re:Problems With Undirected Charity

[jusdisgi]

As an actual LinuxFund card holder, I can comment on where the money should go. Give it to some Linux related project.

Holy Shit! That's BRILLIANT!!!! Thank God we had an actual LinuxFund card holder on hand to come up with this incredible plan!