Virgil Vergara wrote:
My apologizes to everyone especially to Wayne. You all are right about Verifone. Virgil
Your reply has made an otherwise boring thread interesting (and inspirational), and I am sure a lot of our members appreciate your comment.
I am affiliated with a VC group, which, during the bubble days, was capable of financing up to $100M to buy companies with established sales channels.
Under our current conditions, it is almost impossible to try to bring tech VC money to Hawaii. What we can hope to do, I think, is to collectively and unselfishly build a huge Linux infrastructure (I mean "huge"), and hope that someday someone will be able to take advantage of this infrastructure for profitable ventures. Of course, this is just my thought. Everyone has his/her own VC ideas.
In my original post, I mentioned Google. I visited Stanford University's "Bill Gates Computer Laboratories" in the late 1990's and was surprised to find out that almost everyone there was working on Linux. Without Linux, Google would not have been started, and, at least this is what I believe, it is critical important to establish an environment that can foster further developments.
