On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 03:50:50PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Raymond likewise travels and makes speeches to many groups and > > companies, for which he also presumably receives a real, if only nominal > > fee. > > Sounds like talk to me. > > > (If my opinions are of any value whatsoever, I think Raymond just > > prefers being in the public eye to being rich.) > > Raymond got hugely rich on VA Linux deal, as he was a member of the board. >
That's a good question... I'm not certain whether he was one of the smart ones or not. I happened to be lucky or unfortunate enough to work there during that time... I know many people who were paper multi-millionaires... heck.. I was one myself... but a lot of people saw the stock at a post-lockout price of $65/share and thought, "But it's worth so much more when it goes back up to $320..." and (yeah... crazy) didn't sell. The number of these people who didn't sell is astonishing. I happened to be one of those who didn't get through my options cliff until it was back down to 12... the issue price. :-) This is all a very funny and sad story.. but I wouldn't be surprised if he was one of those who drank too much of the kool-aid.. :-) Unfortunately the insider tracker on yahoo doesn't go back to 99/00.. > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
