Actually, when you get into the nitty-gritty there are a few of ways for companies to join forces. One is a merger, the other is an outright purchase, yet another is for one company to buy only parts of the other. I would suspect that Time Warner/AOL is a true merger. If you read the press release about VA/Andover you will notice that it is accounted for as a purchase. For accounting and legal reasons this is a distinctly different transaction from a merger, which takes much longer to consummate. The VA Research - Linux Hardware Solutions deal was a purchase of certain assets of LHS by VA. This made the accounting much simpler and is the reason I'm still working with attorneys and accountants to close the books for LHS.
In short, a merger and a purchase are not the same, this is a purchase.
VA is working with nVidia on the drivers in much the same way that Precision Insight did the work with neoMagic some time ago.
A binary-only driver will be available with a shim to enable the interface with XFree. It is our hope that the source will be releasedat some point, as we are actively promoting the benefits of Open Source with the parties involved.
As an alternative to using the binary only driver we plan to qualify the GeForce with the existing Open Source TnT driver. However there is a performance increase with the binary-only nVidia driver.
It is my understanding that the drivers will be available free of charge. I don't have any new information on the status of OpenGL.
Hope this helps to clarify exactly what is going on. If you have any further questions please email me or Chris DiBona and we'll do our best to get answers for you.
My wife and I ordered from EToys several times this season, along with an order from Amazon, Lands End and a couple other places. The only item that didn't show was one of about a half dozen Playstation titles ordered for our teenager. I placed one order with EToys last Sunday evening for 2 GameBoy cartridges our 6 year old wanted. They were warning then that it wasn't guaranteed by Christmas but automatically upgraded it to express shipping just in case. They arrived Thursday. My online purchasing has increased dramatically over the past several months and the only issues I have are with regard to sites that make you pick a login name (airline tickets come to mind here...) instead of using something like your complete email address. How reasonable do they think it is to generate a pseudo-random permutation of your name to use as a login? I'm not going to remember it, and if I write it down I've got to make sure I keep that information with me in case I need to check on something from [home|office|middle of nowhere].
This reminds me of the study that they did on saccharine (sp?) many years ago. Come to find out, the doses they gave the rodents were equivalent to a human consuming something like 200 cans of diet soda a day, every day, for seven years. Then there was a chance that you might get cancer.
Drink that much soda and you'll need dialysis long before you have anything to worry about from cancer.
Coke has almost made a business out of screwing up their market presence. Just look at the "New Coke" fiasco of the 80's. When's the last time you saw plain-ol' "Coca Cola"? It's all labled "Coca Cola Classic" these days. That error resulted in wholesale defections of avid Coke drinkers to the Pepsi camp. They felt betrayed. It had little to do with the flavor of the soda, it had everything to do with the betrayal they felt. Pepsi was investigating the possibility of bottling "Original Coke" when Coca-Cola "reintroduced" Classic. Since that time Coke has lost market share to Pepsi. The only reason Coke holds the dominant position anymore is their deal with McDonalds. Everywhere else Pepsi walks all over them. Coke got into Burger King a few years ago because they went in on the cheap. Pepsi wasn't willing to loose money to keep the deal.
Let Coke go through with this hairbrained idea, they haven't made a really grand mistake in over 10 years.:-)
--Kit
(who can attribute a lot of his good fortune directly to Pepsi.:-)
Evidently Clive Cussler isn't a favorite author of most Slashdot readers. In his book Cyclops a group of wealthy industrialists have covertly built a colony on the moon.
This looks like someone grabbed the idea and started hypothesizing. For a group that plans to spend $30M on software development and $20M on sales and marketing you would think they might have invested a few thousand dollars in web site design. IMHO it's only a couple of steps above Transmeta's site as far as eye appeal.
You might be amazed at the Linux presence in Wilmington.
Linux Hardware Solutions was there for almost three years, now it's an East Coast office for VA Linux Systems (we joined forces last spring). So until just afew months ago the 2nd largest Linux system vendor was in Wilmington.:-)
I'm a UNC-W alumnus, and another UNC-W grad works here (there) as well.
These days I split time between Sunnyvale and Wilmington, unfortunately I find myself out here for this storm, but some friends that live on the beach will be staying with my family.
Of course that only provides a limited degree of comfort. I just wish this storm would push out to sea, quickly...
OK, here I sit in beautiful Silicon Valley while my wife and kids are in southeast NC preparing for what might be a significant weather event. I was there a couple weeks ago for Dennis, which (fortunately) was pretty wimpy for us. The people up the coast of NC and in VA got pounded for days by a weakening storm. Had it moved through quickly it would have been no big deal, but it got hung up for a while.
Is this funny? No. Interesting? Definitely. hurricanes are as much a part of life on the southeast coast as tornadoes in the midwest, earthquakes in the west and snow in the north. You would be hard pressed to pick an area that doesn't have some uncontrolled risk to contend with.
Having grown up in coastal North Carolina hurricanes are a fact of life. Fortunately no one I know has experienced significant loss of life or property in the past 40 years or so. My great-grandfather lost three beach houses to Hazel in the 50's, but since then the only real damage was a tree on one aunts house from Fran in '96.
My house in Wilmington is about 4 miles from the beach, my wife is in the process of having it boarded up and packing the kids for a trip further inland if Floyd should turn more to the north than projected. For selfish reasons I certainly hope that the track remains as forecast and follows closely what Hugo did a few years ago. There are signs of weakening, hopefully that trend will continue as well.
As far as FEMA money, I think they need to institute a 3 strikes rule. If you can't afford proper insurance how can you afford a house on the beach? An empty lot on Wrightsville Beach (the location of Geek Week last spring) recently sold for over $800K. It was less than 1/4 acre. The Geek Week house is on the market for well over $1M if anyone is interested. Those people certainly don't need to get a handout to repair their second or third home.
I guess those of us who essentially work on the 'net can now all retire with permanent disability due to our "addiction".;->
I find that my need for net access depends upon the situation. If I'm working on a project I need to check email/voicemail on a regular basis. If everything is holding at a stable state then a weeks vacation is a pleasant break.
From what I've seen in the market this appears to me to be the fallout of some profit taking. The articles that have appeared over the past day or so have been pretty neutral and I haven't heard any of the talking heads on the street complain about the valuation. Long term I consider Red Hat to be more attractive than a lot of the other tech stocks out there. I just wish I had jumped on Juniper and RedBack. They're going wild.
I'm not an investment counselor, nor do I play one on television. These are simply my opinions.
YMMV, batteries not included, see store display for complete details.
The future profit stream of Amazon is no more a sure thing than the future profitability of Red Hat. Red Hat has made money in the past, Amazon has yet to turn a profit at all. So ask yourself this, do you have more faith in something that has proven that it can make money, or something that hasn't proven that it can make a dime?
VA takes Red Hat, adds kernel patches, a desktop theme and a couple of other assorted items and burns it on a CD. This CD is shipped to the customer with their system so they can recover from any problems that might arise. This CD exists because it benefits VA and our customers. It allows us to have a higher degree of control over the drivers we ship and eliminates some of the guesswork for our support people. It gives the customer peak performance as well as a known state to restore from. Why would we bother if it didn't benefit anyone? We'd just download the current version of Red Hat, burn it on CDs and go with that.
This CD is not sold seperately. If you consider it a good value to buy a system so you can get this distribution on CD, then I guess VA sets the record for the most expensive version of the Linux O/S. (Buy our version of Linux for $2000 and get a free workstation!:-)
The Mandrake folk are in the business of selling a boxed software product. VA is in the business of selling a boxed hardware product. Red Hat sells a boxed software product. When hardware == software then things will change.
LHS used to ship the boxed Red Hat CD along with a one-off with current updates and other packages our customers found useful. We could have pressed all of that on a single CD instead, but we still would not have been in the business of selling a software product. That's all we're doing at VA.
As Chris posted yesterday in another thread, VA is not in the distribution business We have our own load (based on Red Hat) that has some kernel tweaks provided by our engineers to optimize performance on our systems. The only way you can get this version of Linux is with a VA system.
To reiterate more of what Chris said, the choice of Red Hat was not made to the exclusion of other distributions (we have 2 Debian developers on staff whose job is to develop Debian full-time). Red Hat was chosen because we're growing so rapidly that we had to streamline the operations or go insane. (Whether sanity was maintained is a different discussion altogether.:-)
As more and more things fall into place more options will likely be available.
The name was changed from VA Research to VA Linux Systems to reflect the merger of VA with Linux Hardware Solutions. If you want to talk about confusion, at LHS we used to get phone calls on a daily basis asking us who the CEO of Linux was, how to subscribe to our magazines (Linux Journal and Linux Magazine), what the ticker symbol for "Linux" was, and when was "Linux" going public.
If you think about it "VA Research" doesn't provide much information about what the company offers. "VA Linux Systems" cuts to the chase. Heck, one of the most common questions at the LHS booth during a tradeshow was consistently, "So, what do you guys do?" another one was "Where do I get your operating system?" Even when you think the name of your company tells it all there is need for clarification.
In short, the traditional view of the business world has a difficult time dealing with a shared resource, such as Linux. Until more people get a grasp on the "ownership" so-to-speak of Linux these types of statements from the uninitiated will pop up from time to time.
If I remember any of my three years of German this is it.:-) My instructor may not have been 100% correct (I think he was) but this is how he explained it to us.
Ich bin Berliner == I am a person from Berlin
Ich bin ein Berliner == I am a cream-filled donut
--Kit
Lash him with the clue stick! (was Re:Sleazy Move)
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Ponder this; If VA and Red Hat are competitors, then Red Hat and LHS were competitors. LHS was started by two Red Hat employees, with the full knowledge of Red Hat management. Do you think Red Hat management would have tolerated this at any level if your assertion were true?
VA and Red Hat are competitors like Microsoft and Dell are competitors.
VA sells Linux systems that run Red Hat Linux.
Red Hat sells Red Hat Linux and Linux support and training.
Please return the clue stick when you are finished.
--Kit (who happens to like both NC and Silicon Valley:-)
No, I'm not 100% sure of the facts, which I indicated. I am 100% sure of my beliefs, which, apparently you aren't. At least you aren't sure enough to openly admit what your beliefs are. Put that sign in your yard, then we'll talk.
While we're slewing off-topic at a rapid pace I'd like to suggest that you check out some statistics with respect to crime in Switzerland. In a country where virtually every household has a firearm the crime rate is very close to nil. Last time I studied this (about 15 years ago in high school) I recall that every home had a rifle and the crime rate was nearly zero.
As ESR says, if you're that anti-firearm I challenge you to put a sign in your yard/on your apartment door that proclaims "This dwelling is a gun-free zone"
A fully armed populace may not eliminate all gun crime, but I would venture to hypothesize that a criminal is much less likely to, say, rob a bank, if he thinks there's a better than even chance that most of the people in the bank are capable of taking him out.
As far as the "illusion" goes, I don't know of a single NRA member that believes the illusion that you will eliminate gun crime by compromising the rights of law-abiding citizens to arm themselves.
I attempt to address the major issues that I skimmed in the nearly 200 responses posted thus far. (That ought to tech me to spend a whole day away from./ )
First, I'll just say that Miguel is on target. I did work for Red Hat in the early days (employee #6) and the core values of the company were then, and remain, to be true to the GPL. IMHO I think the marketing layer at Red Hat has started to obfuscate those core values, and that is a shame, but the techies at Red Hat still work hard to do the "Right Thing". All the code they produce is GPL, Erik even maintains rpm2cpio so folks without rpm installed can use Red Hat packages if they choose.
On stability of x.0 releases, it all boils down to the simple fact that there isn't a beta program that has ever eliminated 100% of the bugs in a release. We've had problems with LILO in 6.0 on the laptops LHS sold. It just *won't work* for some reason, the 5.2 version is fine. When we shipped Red Hat 3.0.3 (the one that won awards for "Ugliest Packaging in a Major Distribution") there was a network issue that got me flooded with support email. IIRC it was NFS-related. The ironic thing was we had everything but the kitchen sink NFS mounted to the point that we could kill the entire network by bringing down any one of about 4 machines. (There were only 4 of us in the NC office then so it was a simple matter to torment the guilty party.:-) Nevertheless, with all that NFS activity there was a glitch that we couldn't reproduce that was wreaking havoc across the globe. Red Hat updates the distro on a regular basis, so you shouldn't ever be crippled for long. There are always going to be glitches, just be glad that this is Open Source software so you can get a fix sooner rather than later and without being forced to buy an "upgrade". It's not perfect, but it's a damn sight better than the alternative.:-)
Now, with the IPO stuff going on comes the most disappointing thing to me. People at Red Hat who have opinions that they used to share freely are now somewhat gagged. Part of this is due to the simple fact that they don't want to give the SEC any reason to get upset. That's understandable. However it seems to run a lot deeper than that, and I can only attribute that aspect to the new management structure that apparently doesn't seem to "get it" quite yet. They've got an "IPO Cookbook" and they haven't fully figured out how to make it gel in this atmosphere. I'm pulling for them to get it worked out so they don't have to worry about backlash from the community.
These comments are strictly mine, any indication otherwise is unintended.
Umm, San is from the "north" coast, Ottowa Canada to be exact. The only east coast people out there right now are Trae and Mandrake, and they're not *really* from the coast. When I get out there in a couple of weeks that will be a true east-coast/west-coast migration, since from where I'm sitting right now I could throw a baseball into the Atlantic. Anyone want to buy a house in North Carolina?:-)
Folks, the best thing to do in this scenario is sit back and watch the beast from Redmond self-destruct. They've started fighting, so Linux wins. Look for an editorial on the subject coming soon to a Linux news site near you. As the saying goes;
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One is a merger, the other is an outright purchase, yet another is for one company to buy
only parts of the other. I would suspect that Time Warner/AOL is a true merger. If you read the
press release about VA/Andover you will notice that it is accounted for as a purchase.
For accounting and legal reasons this is a distinctly different transaction from a merger,
which takes much longer to consummate. The VA Research - Linux Hardware Solutions
deal was a purchase of certain assets of LHS by VA. This made the accounting much simpler
and is the reason I'm still working with attorneys and accountants to close the books for LHS.
In short, a merger and a purchase are not the same, this is a purchase.
--Kit
Anyone want to wager that Slick Willy thinks he's an incarnation of Dirk Pitt? (or at least Pitt's libido... :-)
I find it amusing that Clinton advocates this just a few weeks after Clive Cussler's newest novel is released.
In Atlantis Found nanotechnology plays a key role in a plot to destroy civilization as we know it.
Coincedence? I'd bet not.
--Kit
did the work with neoMagic some time ago.
A binary-only driver will be available with a shim to enable the interface with XFree.
It is our hope that the source will be releasedat some point, as we are actively promoting
the benefits of Open Source with the parties involved.
As an alternative to using the binary only driver we plan to qualify the GeForce with the
existing Open Source TnT driver. However there is a performance increase with
the binary-only nVidia driver.
It is my understanding that the drivers will be available free of charge. I don't have any
new information on the status of OpenGL.
Hope this helps to clarify exactly what is going on. If you have any further questions
please email me or Chris DiBona and we'll do our best to get answers for you.
--Kit
cosper@valinux.com
My wife and I ordered from EToys several times this season, along with an order from Amazon,
Lands End and a couple other places. The only item that didn't show was one of
about a half dozen Playstation titles ordered for our teenager. I placed one order with EToys last
Sunday evening for 2 GameBoy cartridges our 6 year old wanted. They were warning then that it wasn't
guaranteed by Christmas but automatically upgraded it to express shipping just in case. They arrived
Thursday. My online purchasing has increased dramatically over the past several months and the
only issues I have are with regard to sites that make you pick a login name (airline tickets come
to mind here...) instead of using something like your complete email address. How reasonable do
they think it is to generate a pseudo-random permutation of your name to use as a login? I'm
not going to remember it, and if I write it down I've got to make sure I keep that information with me
in case I need to check on something from [home|office|middle of nowhere].
--Kit
Come to find out, the doses they gave the rodents were equivalent to a human
consuming something like 200 cans of diet soda a day, every day, for seven years .
Then there was a chance that you might get cancer.
Drink that much soda and you'll need dialysis long before you have anything to worry about from cancer.
Now if I could just remember...
--Kit
When's the last time you saw plain-ol' "Coca Cola"? It's all labled "Coca Cola Classic" these days.
That error resulted in wholesale defections of avid Coke drinkers to the Pepsi camp. They felt betrayed.
It had little to do with the flavor of the soda, it had everything to do with the betrayal they felt.
Pepsi was investigating the possibility of bottling "Original Coke" when Coca-Cola "reintroduced" Classic.
Since that time Coke has lost market share to Pepsi. The only reason Coke holds the dominant position
anymore is their deal with McDonalds. Everywhere else Pepsi walks all over them. Coke got into Burger King
a few years ago because they went in on the cheap. Pepsi wasn't willing to loose money to keep the deal.
Let Coke go through with this hairbrained idea, they haven't made a really grand mistake in over 10 years.
--Kit
(who can attribute a lot of his good fortune directly to Pepsi.
This looks like someone grabbed the idea and started hypothesizing. For a group that plans to spend $30M on software development and $20M on sales and marketing you would think they might have invested a few thousand dollars in web site design. IMHO it's only a couple of steps above Transmeta's site as far as eye appeal.
--Kit
Linux Hardware Solutions was there for almost three years, now it's an East Coast office for VA Linux Systems (we joined forces last spring). So until just afew months ago the 2nd largest Linux system vendor was in Wilmington.
I'm a UNC-W alumnus, and another UNC-W grad works here (there) as well.
These days I split time between Sunnyvale and Wilmington, unfortunately I find myself out here for this storm, but some friends that live on the beach will be staying with my family.
Of course that only provides a limited degree of comfort. I just wish this storm would push out to sea, quickly...
--Kit
Is this funny? No. Interesting? Definitely. hurricanes are as much a part of life on the southeast coast as tornadoes in the midwest, earthquakes in the west and snow in the north. You would be hard pressed to pick an area that doesn't have some uncontrolled risk to contend with.
Having grown up in coastal North Carolina hurricanes are a fact of life. Fortunately no one I know has experienced significant loss of life or property in the past 40 years or so. My great-grandfather lost three beach houses to Hazel in the 50's, but since then the only real damage was a tree on one aunts house from Fran in '96.
My house in Wilmington is about 4 miles from the beach, my wife is in the process of having it boarded up and packing the kids for a trip further inland if Floyd should turn more to the north than projected. For selfish reasons I certainly hope that the track remains as forecast and follows closely what Hugo did a few years ago. There are signs of weakening, hopefully that trend will continue as well.
As far as FEMA money, I think they need to institute a 3 strikes rule. If you can't afford proper insurance how can you afford a house on the beach? An empty lot on Wrightsville Beach (the location of Geek Week last spring) recently sold for over $800K. It was less than 1/4 acre. The Geek Week house is on the market for well over $1M if anyone is interested. Those people certainly don't need to get a handout to repair their second or third home.
I'll quit babbling for now...
--Kit
disability due to our "addiction".
I find that my need for net access depends upon the situation. If I'm working on a
project I need to check email/voicemail on a regular basis. If everything is holding
at a stable state then a weeks vacation is a pleasant break.
--Kit
Here's the link.
--Kit
From what I've seen in the market this appears to me to be the fallout of some profit taking.
The articles that have appeared over the past day or so have been pretty neutral and I haven't heard
any of the talking heads on the street complain about the valuation. Long term I consider
Red Hat to be more attractive than a lot of the other tech stocks out there. I just wish I had jumped on
Juniper and RedBack. They're going wild.
I'm not an investment counselor, nor do I play one on television. These are simply my opinions.
YMMV, batteries not included, see store display for complete details.
--Kit
The future profit stream of Amazon is no more a sure thing than the future profitability of Red Hat. Red Hat has made money in the past, Amazon has yet to turn a profit at all. So ask yourself this, do you have more faith in something that has proven that it can make money, or something that hasn't proven that it can make a dime?
--Kit
VA takes Red Hat, adds kernel patches, a desktop theme and a couple of other assorted items and burns it on a CD. This CD is shipped to the customer with their system so they can recover from any problems that might arise. This CD exists because it benefits VA and our customers. It allows us to have a higher degree of control over the drivers we ship and eliminates some of the guesswork for our support people. It gives the customer peak performance as well as a known state to restore from. Why would we bother if it didn't benefit anyone? We'd just download the current version of Red Hat, burn it on CDs and go with that.
This CD is not sold seperately. If you consider it a good value to buy a system so you can get this distribution on CD, then I guess VA sets the record for the most expensive version of the Linux O/S. (Buy our version of Linux for $2000 and get a free workstation!
The Mandrake folk are in the business of selling a boxed software product. VA is in the business of selling a boxed hardware product. Red Hat sells a boxed software product. When hardware == software then things will change.
LHS used to ship the boxed Red Hat CD along with a one-off with current updates and other packages our customers found useful. We could have pressed all of that on a single CD instead, but we still would not have been in the business of selling a software product. That's all we're doing at VA.
--Kit
The only way you can get the VA-version of Red Hat in CD form is with a VA System.
All of the drivers have been released under the GPL, there just may not be included in the currently shipping version of Red Hat.
--Kit
To reiterate more of what Chris said, the choice of Red Hat was not made to the exclusion of other distributions (we have 2 Debian developers on staff whose job is to develop Debian full-time). Red Hat was chosen because we're growing so rapidly that we had to streamline the operations or go insane. (Whether sanity was maintained is a different discussion altogether. :-)
As more and more things fall into place more options will likely be available.
--Kit
If you think about it "VA Research" doesn't provide much information about what the company offers. "VA Linux Systems" cuts to the chase. Heck, one of the most common questions at the LHS booth during a tradeshow was consistently, "So, what do you guys do?" another one was "Where do I get your operating system?" Even when you think the name of your company tells it all there is need for clarification.
In short, the traditional view of the business world has a difficult time dealing with a shared resource, such as Linux. Until more people get a grasp on the "ownership" so-to-speak of Linux these types of statements from the uninitiated will pop up from time to time.
--Kit
If I remember any of my three years of German this :-) My instructor may not have been 100% correct (I think he was) but this is how he explained it to us.
is it.
Ich bin Berliner == I am a person from Berlin
Ich bin ein Berliner == I am a cream-filled donut
--Kit
If VA and Red Hat are competitors, then Red Hat and LHS were competitors.
LHS was started by two Red Hat employees, with the full knowledge of Red Hat management.
Do you think Red Hat management would have tolerated this at any level if your assertion were true?
VA and Red Hat are competitors like Microsoft and Dell are competitors.
VA sells Linux systems that run Red Hat Linux.
Red Hat sells Red Hat Linux and Linux support and training.
Please return the clue stick when you are finished.
--Kit
(who happens to like both NC and Silicon Valley
No, I'm not 100% sure of the facts, which I indicated. I am 100% sure of my beliefs, which, apparently you aren't. At least you aren't sure enough to openly admit what your beliefs are.
Put that sign in your yard, then we'll talk.
These opionions are mine.
--Kit
As ESR says, if you're that anti-firearm I challenge you to put a sign in your yard/on your apartment door that proclaims "This dwelling is a gun-free zone"
A fully armed populace may not eliminate all gun crime, but I would venture to hypothesize that a criminal is much less likely to, say, rob a bank, if he thinks there's a better than even chance that most of the people in the bank are capable of taking him out.
As far as the "illusion" goes, I don't know of a single NRA member that believes the illusion that you will eliminate gun crime by compromising the rights of law-abiding citizens to arm themselves.
Gun Control means using both hands
As always, these are my opinions.
--Kit
First, I'll just say that Miguel is on target. I did work for Red Hat in the early days (employee #6) and the core values of the company were then, and remain, to be true to the GPL. IMHO I think the marketing layer at Red Hat has started to obfuscate those core values, and that is a shame, but the techies at Red Hat still work hard to do the "Right Thing". All the code they produce is GPL, Erik even maintains rpm2cpio so folks without rpm installed can use Red Hat packages if they choose.
On stability of x.0 releases, it all boils down to the simple fact that there isn't a beta program that has ever eliminated 100% of the bugs in a release. We've had problems with LILO in 6.0 on the laptops LHS sold. It just *won't work* for some reason, the 5.2 version is fine. When we shipped Red Hat 3.0.3 (the one that won awards for "Ugliest Packaging in a Major Distribution") there was a network issue that got me flooded with support email. IIRC it was NFS-related. The ironic thing was we had everything but the kitchen sink NFS mounted to the point that we could kill the entire network by bringing down any one of about 4 machines. (There were only 4 of us in the NC office then so it was a simple matter to torment the guilty party.
Now, with the IPO stuff going on comes the most disappointing thing to me. People at Red Hat who have opinions that they used to share freely are now somewhat gagged. Part of this is due to the simple fact that they don't want to give the SEC any reason to get upset. That's understandable. However it seems to run a lot deeper than that, and I can only attribute that aspect to the new management structure that apparently doesn't seem to "get it" quite yet. They've got an "IPO Cookbook" and they haven't fully figured out how to make it gel in this atmosphere. I'm pulling for them to get it worked out so they don't have to worry about backlash from the community.
These comments are strictly mine, any indication otherwise is unintended.
--Kit
Umm, San is from the "north" coast, Ottowa Canada to be exact. The only east coast people out there right now are Trae and Mandrake, and they're not *really* from the coast. When I get out there in a couple of weeks that will be a true east-coast/west-coast migration, since from where I'm sitting right now I could throw a baseball into the Atlantic. Anyone want to buy a house in North Carolina? :-)
--Kit
As the saying goes;
First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you
Then you win
--Kit
Linux Hardware Solutions/
Linux Kongress is a European show. Not quite a balance, but from what I have heard it's definitely worth the effort.
--Kit