Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Linonut on Monday 24 December 2007 03:16 : \____
>
>> * Tony Sivori fired off this tart reply:
>>
>>> When I read the book I was wowed at a man who had the strength of
>>> character to turn down an easy $10 million based on a personal belief.
>>> Later, on a rereading of the book I became curious about the identity of
>>> the unnamed London entrepreneur.
>>
>> Wasn't there some asswipe (Jeff Merkey?) who offered to buy the Linux
>> kernel for $15000?
>
> It's worth about $60 million (or was it $600 million) now. Samba was offered
> $40 million to be acquired (Samba declined). CUPS, on the other hand...
>
The linux kernel is probably beyond anyone's ability to "afford". Aside
from anything else, you'd have to get everyone to agree to the
purchase, and even then, you could just fork it from the last version
anyway because of the GPL, so it's kind of worth everything and nothing
all at the same time.
Even so, operating systems are now at the natural monopoly state, where
they cost far too much for any oranisation to develop, and all you could
hope to achieve would be the split the market anyway. This is not a
sane investment approach.
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