____/ 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...
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