Such comments might qualify as a final twist of the knife to investors who bought into the company during its heyday, but as Allison is quick to note, it was VA Linux employees who bled the most following the company's moonshot IPO. Thanks to the alternative minimum tax -- an obscure tax that kicks in as soon as options are exercised and that can wallop employees who don't sell immediately -- employees who bought VA Linux shares with an intention to hold paid dearly for their loyalty.
"I know people who are going to be paying off the government for the rest of their lives," says Allison.
One such victim was Ted Arden, a former sales engineer who, thanks to VA's knockout opening-day performance and the SEC-mandated six-month "lockup" period, wound up owing more than $100,000 on $180,000 worth of vested stock. Subtracting total taxes from total salary and the money he finally did recoup from stock sales, Arden estimates it cost him $25,000 a year to be a VA Linux employee.
Had I not already made my fortune, and kept my Windows system as a backup, I could have been wiped out. I saw a comment elsewhere by a man who wanted his Linux system to run out of the box; he was answered at length by two others, to the effect he was wrong to want it. Oh, yeah? Attitudes like that are death to popularity.
oh and I agree with the article too. Finally someone with enough sense and not so biased they cannot see the truth that is Linux on the desktop and why it's not even close to being ready.
After your bloody duel with the huge Dragon, your first inpulse is to rip
it's head off and bring it town. Carefull thought reveals it is much to
big for your horse, so that plan is moot. Your second notion is bring back
the childrens bones. Bags and bags of them for proper barial, but you
realize this would only cause the towns inhabitants MORE pain. You
finally decide on the Dragons heart. After adding ten years to your
swords life, you finally chip off enough scales to wallow in the huge
beasts insides.
When you are finished, and fit the still heart in a gunny sack you brought,
(who would have thought this would be its use?) you make your way back to
town. As you share your story to a crowd of excited onlookers, this crowd
becomes a gathering, and this gathering becomes an assemblage, and this
assemblage becomes a multitude!
This multitude nearly becomes a mob, but thinking quick, you make a
speech.
"PEOPLE!" your voice booms. "It is true I have ridden this town of
it's curse, the Red Dragon. And this is his heart."
You dump the bloody object onto the ground. From the back, Barak's
voice is heard. "How do we know where you got that thing? It looks
like you skinned a sheep!" A flicker of annoyance crosses your face,
but you force a smile. "Why Barak, would you doubt me? A LEVEL 12 warrior?
If I am not mistaken, you are quite a bit lower, still at level two, eh?"
Barak gives you no more trouble, and you are declared a hero by all.
Violet tops off the evening by giving you a kiss on the cheek, and a
whisper of things to come later that night makes even you almost
blush. Almost.
Thanks for being tough enough to win the game,
and thank your sysop for registering!
After your bloody duel with the huge Dragon, your first inpulse is to rip
it's head off and bring it town. Carefull thought reveals it is much to
big for your horse, so that plan is moot. Your second notion is bring back
the childrens bones. Bags and bags of them for proper barial, but you
realize this would only cause the towns inhabitants MORE pain. You
finally decide on the Dragons heart. After adding ten years to your
swords life, you finally chip off enough scales to wallow in the huge
beasts insides.
When you are finished, and fit the still heart in a gunny sack you brought,
(who would have thought this would be its use?) you make your way back to
town. As you share your story to a crowd of excited onlookers, this crowd
becomes a gathering, and this gathering becomes an assemblage, and this
assemblage becomes a multitude!
This multitude nearly becomes a mob, but thinking quick, you make a
speech.
"PEOPLE!" your voice booms. "It is true I have ridden this town of
it's curse, the Red Dragon. And this is his heart."
You dump the bloody object onto the ground. From the back, Barak's
voice is heard. "How do we know where you got that thing? It looks
like you skinned a sheep!" A flicker of annoyance crosses your face,
but you force a smile. "Why Barak, would you doubt me? A LEVEL 12 warrior?
If I am not mistaken, you are quite a bit lower, still at level two, eh?"
Barak gives you no more trouble, and you are declared a hero by all.
Violet tops off the evening by giving you a kiss on the cheek, and a
whisper of things to come later that night makes even you almost
blush. Almost.
Thanks for being tough enough to win the game,
and thank your sysop for registering!
props to Tunkey Micket for showing us an excellent example of flamebaiting. He has gone beyond a simple comment troll, and managed to have a flamebait admitted as an article! It is truly a great feat, and he should be given an honorary admittance to the CLIT.
MSNBC is reporting that Linux is dying(unless, of course, you read the article)
Re:I too, rub my legs with butter.
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I noticed there weren't many of the usual slashdot trolls in this article. I think perhaps it's because there were already enough anti-ms linux zealot trolls, so there was no room for us usual trolls.
i would further like to commend the article submitter for indeed posting a summary that wasn't much of a summary of the actual article, and instead constituted an excellent example of flamebaiting. You have won an honorary place in the CLIT, dear sir.
haha don't try your jedi mind tricks on us m$ mouthpiece we are linux zealots, much too smart to fall for your tricks!!
500th redundant point time!!
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In lieu of a 500th redundant joke(next to maybe, linux being a desktop OS), here is the 500th redundant point!!
LOOK AT THE SOURCE...MS(which means microsoft I make sure and point that out just in case you dont know)NBC owned by MICROSOFT(again i point it out) also known as M$. THEY ARE BIASED obviously(unlike slashdot of course)
on the desktop. just as he said, linux is not taking the desktop and it's not ready to compete with microsoft on the desktop. Be happy you got $400 million in server sales last year, that's no small number.
He brings up a good point though. All the linux on the desktop hype we've been hearing for some 3 years now and what do you have to show?
give one guy a bj, shame on you give two guys a bj, shame on me and if you don't think i can get to you you're wrong you're just a stupid hoe you've always been a stupid hoe and you'll always be a stupid hoe love, spoonie
Slashdot Mirror
and slashdot still sucks ass
k thx
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Such comments might qualify as a final twist of the knife to investors who bought into the company during its heyday, but as Allison is quick to note, it was VA Linux employees who bled the most following the company's moonshot IPO. Thanks to the alternative minimum tax -- an obscure tax that kicks in as soon as options are exercised and that can wallop employees who don't sell immediately -- employees who bought VA Linux shares with an intention to hold paid dearly for their loyalty.
"I know people who are going to be paying off the government for the rest of their lives," says Allison.
One such victim was Ted Arden, a former sales engineer who, thanks to VA's knockout opening-day performance and the SEC-mandated six-month "lockup" period, wound up owing more than $100,000 on $180,000 worth of vested stock. Subtracting total taxes from total salary and the money he finally did recoup from stock sales, Arden estimates it cost him $25,000 a year to be a VA Linux employee.
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Here is my second post of the day!!! I have wasted it!! goodbye silly people!! I must abandon the CLITS and join the AC's... :(
Had I not already made my fortune, and kept my Windows system as a backup, I could have been wiped out. I saw a comment elsewhere by a man who wanted his Linux system to run out of the box; he was answered at length by two others, to the effect he was wrong to want it. Oh, yeah? Attitudes like that are death to popularity.
he just pointed out typical slashdot attitudes
clit, get it in her
Karma: Bad (mostly affected by moderation done to your comments)
:(
I miss being branded with a number
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)
And I Agree with this one..
oh and I agree with the article too. Finally someone with enough sense and not so biased they cannot see the truth that is Linux on the desktop and why it's not even close to being ready.
EPILOGUE - The Warriors Ending
After your bloody duel with the huge Dragon, your first inpulse is to rip
it's head off and bring it town. Carefull thought reveals it is much to
big for your horse, so that plan is moot. Your second notion is bring back
the childrens bones. Bags and bags of them for proper barial, but you
realize this would only cause the towns inhabitants MORE pain. You
finally decide on the Dragons heart. After adding ten years to your
swords life, you finally chip off enough scales to wallow in the huge
beasts insides.
When you are finished, and fit the still heart in a gunny sack you brought,
(who would have thought this would be its use?) you make your way back to
town. As you share your story to a crowd of excited onlookers, this crowd
becomes a gathering, and this gathering becomes an assemblage, and this
assemblage becomes a multitude!
This multitude nearly becomes a mob, but thinking quick, you make a
speech.
"PEOPLE!" your voice booms. "It is true I have ridden this town of
it's curse, the Red Dragon. And this is his heart."
You dump the bloody object onto the ground. From the back, Barak's
voice is heard. "How do we know where you got that thing? It looks
like you skinned a sheep!" A flicker of annoyance crosses your face,
but you force a smile. "Why Barak, would you doubt me? A LEVEL 12 warrior?
If I am not mistaken, you are quite a bit lower, still at level two, eh?"
Barak gives you no more trouble, and you are declared a hero by all.
Violet tops off the evening by giving you a kiss on the cheek, and a
whisper of things to come later that night makes even you almost
blush. Almost.
Thanks for being tough enough to win the game,
and thank your sysop for registering!
-Seth Able
EPILOGUE - The Warriors Ending
After your bloody duel with the huge Dragon, your first inpulse is to rip
it's head off and bring it town. Carefull thought reveals it is much to
big for your horse, so that plan is moot. Your second notion is bring back
the childrens bones. Bags and bags of them for proper barial, but you
realize this would only cause the towns inhabitants MORE pain. You
finally decide on the Dragons heart. After adding ten years to your
swords life, you finally chip off enough scales to wallow in the huge
beasts insides.
When you are finished, and fit the still heart in a gunny sack you brought,
(who would have thought this would be its use?) you make your way back to
town. As you share your story to a crowd of excited onlookers, this crowd
becomes a gathering, and this gathering becomes an assemblage, and this
assemblage becomes a multitude!
This multitude nearly becomes a mob, but thinking quick, you make a
speech.
"PEOPLE!" your voice booms. "It is true I have ridden this town of
it's curse, the Red Dragon. And this is his heart."
You dump the bloody object onto the ground. From the back, Barak's
voice is heard. "How do we know where you got that thing? It looks
like you skinned a sheep!" A flicker of annoyance crosses your face,
but you force a smile. "Why Barak, would you doubt me? A LEVEL 12 warrior?
If I am not mistaken, you are quite a bit lower, still at level two, eh?"
Barak gives you no more trouble, and you are declared a hero by all.
Violet tops off the evening by giving you a kiss on the cheek, and a
whisper of things to come later that night makes even you almost
blush. Almost.
Thanks for being tough enough to win the game,
and thank your sysop for registering!
-Seth Able
HEllo I am JUNIS from Afghanistan can someone plz to explain this AGP and how i can get working on my commodore 64. Thank you
I saw Jon Katz playing on the swingset with little boys at Michael Jackson's neverneverland
Package OpenSSH, call it BOFH-SSH and sell it to them at $50 a license.
props to Tunkey Micket for showing us an excellent example of flamebaiting. He has gone beyond a simple comment troll, and managed to have a flamebait admitted as an article! It is truly a great feat, and he should be given an honorary admittance to the CLIT.
MSNBC is reporting that Linux is dying(unless, of course, you read the article)
I noticed there weren't many of the usual slashdot trolls in this article. I think perhaps it's because there were already enough anti-ms linux zealot trolls, so there was no room for us usual trolls.
i would further like to commend the article submitter for indeed posting a summary that wasn't much of a summary of the actual article, and instead constituted an excellent example of flamebaiting. You have won an honorary place in the CLIT, dear sir.
You cannot use your jedi mind tricks on us, M$ mouthpiece! We linux zealots are much to smart to fall for your propoganda!!
haha don't try your jedi mind tricks on us m$ mouthpiece we are linux zealots, much too smart to fall for your tricks!!
In lieu of a 500th redundant joke(next to maybe, linux being a desktop OS), here is the 500th redundant point!!
LOOK AT THE SOURCE...MS(which means microsoft I make sure and point that out just in case you dont know)NBC owned by MICROSOFT(again i point it out) also known as M$. THEY ARE BIASED obviously(unlike slashdot of course)
on the desktop. just as he said, linux is not taking the desktop and it's not ready to compete with microsoft on the desktop. Be happy you got $400 million in server sales last year, that's no small number.
He brings up a good point though. All the linux on the desktop hype we've been hearing for some 3 years now and what do you have to show?
to spoonie luv, from up above?
give one guy a bj, shame on you
give two guys a bj, shame on me
and if you don't think i can get to you
you're wrong
you're just a stupid hoe
you've always been a stupid hoe
and you'll always be a stupid hoe
love, spoonie