The thing you need to remember is that it is very difficult to get into an IPO. In Initial "public" offering, "public" is almost a bad term. You have to know some of the big broker to get in on an IPO. The good news...yes prices usually soar from the IPO price to the thirty days out, but this is still a small percentage of what a good stock will be worth (thats where the risk of investing comes in). The other good news is that if you watch closely, market "corrections" and lowered interest after the IPO will often bring the prices back down to a very attractive level. Sweat not my fellow linux lovers, don't discount Red Hat stock just because you can't get in on the IPO, most people can't.
The purpose of MS putting IE on Linux would be two fold. First, if they can get a title or two developed for Linux, it would greatly increase their chances with DOJ. I think that they would do this,despite the revolution that it would be, just for the DOJ brownie points.
Secondly, it gets M$ a start in Linux. As much as I despise M$ and their crappy software, they are anything but stupid. Since M$ will be unable to squash Linux like they would like, I guarantee you they will find a way to make money off of it. And I think very soon, that will be their official stategy.
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The thing you need to remember is that it is very difficult to get into an IPO. In Initial "public" offering, "public" is almost a bad term. You have to know some of the big broker to get in on an IPO. The good news...yes prices usually soar from the IPO price to the thirty days out, but this is still a small percentage of what a good stock will be worth (thats where the risk of investing comes in). The other good news is that if you watch closely, market "corrections" and lowered interest after the IPO will often bring the prices back down to a very attractive level. Sweat not my fellow linux lovers, don't discount Red Hat stock just because you can't get in on the IPO, most people can't.
The purpose of MS putting IE on Linux would be two fold. First, if they can get a title or two developed for Linux, it would greatly increase their chances with DOJ. I think that they would do this,despite the revolution that it would be, just for the DOJ brownie points.
Secondly, it gets M$ a start in Linux. As much as I despise M$ and their crappy software, they are anything but stupid. Since M$ will be unable to squash Linux like they would like, I guarantee you they will find a way to make money off of it. And I think very soon, that will be their official stategy.