Mark Shuttleworth can afford freedom
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| Mark made gobs of money when he sold Thawte to VeriSign. ($700M to be
| exact.) This gives him wide latitude to do nice things like buy me an
| executive box at Arsenal (to which I'd generously grant him occasional
| access :-) and, closer to reality, to fund the building of an
| exceptional Linux distribution and give it away for free.
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A comment grabbed my attention too:
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| You can't imagine how accurately you just depicted me. My favorite books
| are all anti-capitalist (anything by John Steinbeck, for example), but
| I'm also disinclined to indulge sentimental pining the joys of
| collectivist poverty. I want money, but don't believe in crushing the
| little guy on the road to it....
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/09/mark_shuttlewor.html
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