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[News] Jeremy Allison Was Offered $40 Million for Samba and Rejected the Offer

  • Subject: [News] Jeremy Allison Was Offered $40 Million for Samba and Rejected the Offer
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:47:53 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Tablets from the Mountain

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| One estimate put the price tag on creating the Linux kernel at over $600 
| million. In the early days of the project I work on, Samba, a commercial 
| competitor who shall remain nameless offered around $40 million for the 
| rights. They were refused.   
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http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/252

Could it be Microsoft? Apple?


Related:

http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L475

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