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> You have pumped more than $10 million of your own money into the
> continuing development of Ubuntu Linux, and you have been on a
> personal campaign to bring a free, easy-to-use and reliable Linux to
> the masses around the world. Why?
>
> In college, I was struggling to get my own personal computer hooked
> up to the university network. Then someone gave me a stack of
> Slackware Linux discs, and I found myself just enthralled by the
> breadth and depth of the tools that were available from Linux, even
> in those very early days. It's like going from living in the
> desert to walking into an all-you-can-eat buffet. I went on to turn
> that interest in the Internet into a small business called Thawte [in
> 1995], which sold digital certificates that I created, initially at
> least, with cryptographic software that was available under an
> open-source license.
>
> Linux ... the all-you-can eat buffer. I like that!
>
> The key was Linux. It was Linux that let me connect to the Net so I
> could start soaking up this knowledge. It was Linux that let me put
> servers down in a company with an employee count of one, and to have
> servers in three countries and administer them all remotely over slow
> dial-up lines. You could only do that with Linux.
>
> I sold that business in 1999, right at the top of the Internet
> bubble. That then gave me the opportunity to sit back and ask
> myself, what are the things in life that I would like to be a part
> of? You know, life is short.
There's also that company that didn't even exist 10 years. It's a story about a
couple of dudes who used stinkin' old PCs and hooked them together with cr*ppy
cables to run some 'commie code'. Some years later, they became Microsoft's #1
threat.
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Windows: backward-compatible, even for viruses
http://Schestowitz.com | RHAT GNU/Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
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