Are they riding Open Source hype or are they getting ready to embrace and extend the Open Source term? I doubt it. I think that it is in competition with Sun, not with Open Source. Sun has been throwing the word "Open" around for years. OpenBoot, OpenWindows, blah blah. Is any of that Open Source? Didn't think so.
But if Linux kernel hackers and GNU software writers (and their thousands of "assistants" in the form of people who submit patches) were getting PAID for their work, wouldn't they then become EVIL?
Or what else did you plan to do with the money, build a $500mil GNU Palace at MIT?
Wrong. You may believe that you know how successful RedHat will be as a company, but that has very little correlation to how successful their stock will be! The stock market is driven by analysts, and those analysts are driven by other analysts and marketing.
Experienced traders know that the greatest impact on the stock market is things like the labor report that caused the market to go down significantly yesterday. RedHat may be doing just incredibly awesome, but what if Saddam Hussein decides to invade Iran the day after RedHat IPOs? Do you realize that this could cause ALL US stocks to go down, even RedHat?
Someone who has to "scrape together" $1200 ($1000 of which was to be used to pay back debt!) should not be investing that money in the stock market, even in a "sure thing" IPO.
On the other hand, I do not support what E*Trade was doing. I think that if the author wanted to blow his entire life savings, they should have let him.
If you want to invest in the market and have that kind of money, you should be starting out small, by investing $50/month in a mutual fund (Fidelity has Tech-oriented funds).
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Are they riding Open Source hype or are they getting ready to embrace and extend the Open Source term? I doubt it. I think that it is in competition with Sun, not with Open Source. Sun has been throwing the word "Open" around for years. OpenBoot, OpenWindows, blah blah. Is any of that Open Source? Didn't think so.
But if Linux kernel hackers and GNU software writers (and their thousands of "assistants" in the form of people who submit patches) were getting PAID for their work, wouldn't they then become EVIL?
Or what else did you plan to do with the money, build a $500mil GNU Palace at MIT?
Wrong. You may believe that you know how successful RedHat will be as a company, but that has very little correlation to how successful their stock will be! The stock market is driven by analysts, and those analysts are driven by other analysts and marketing.
Experienced traders know that the greatest impact on the stock market is things like the labor report that caused the market to go down significantly yesterday. RedHat may be doing just incredibly awesome, but what if Saddam Hussein decides to invade Iran the day after RedHat IPOs? Do you realize that this could cause ALL US stocks to go down, even RedHat?
Someone who has to "scrape together" $1200 ($1000 of which was to be used to pay back debt!) should not be investing that money in the stock market, even in a "sure thing" IPO.
On the other hand, I do not support what E*Trade was doing. I think that if the author wanted to blow his entire life savings, they should have let him.
If you want to invest in the market and have that kind of money, you should be starting out small, by investing $50/month in a mutual fund (Fidelity has Tech-oriented funds).
Data Communications Magazine recently liked Exchange a whole lot better... http://www.data.com/issue/990321/email. html
Exchange 5.5 has the ability to keep people from relaying through it. See the KB article