Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:27:43 -0400 | From | "Scott T. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: Money |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > I _really_ don't want money. You wouldn't believe how frustrating it is with > personal cheques from the US - in the best case it costs on the order of > $10-20 USD just to get them cached (*), and that's after arguing about it > with the bank tellers for 10 minutes. >
> As to the person who suggested beer - oh Gods. The Finnish customs people are > all ex-Nazis, and they've gotten a lot grumpier since their austere leader > shot his brains out. They have a bad day EVERY DAY. Their only joy in life is > to confiscate alcohol from abroad. > > Linus > > (*) Think about it for a while. How safe would you rate any personal cheque > on a scale of 1-10? Personally, I'd call it at about a -50. You can print out > fake cheques on your average dot matrix printer, for Gods sake! Small > children in kindergarten can make one up with a pink crayon. No wonder no > self-respecting bank outside the US wants to have anything to do with them.
Are Red Hat and SlackWare and their kind the only ones making a profit off of Linux sales? If so, Linus is really being too humble. I have 3 consulting clients which use Linux in 24/7 production environments. All of these companies are making money hand-over-fist. Two of these companies have over 1000 employees. I am sure that there are many, larger companies using Linux without having to pay a single, measley dime, or franc, or whatever.
You should at least set up a deposit-only internet banking account tied to a Finnish bank. From it you can distribute the SHAREware contributions amongst Linux's many deserving developers. Linus taking the lion's share, of course. I guess that means people may have to travel to Finland to get paid, but these people need to get out of the house anyway.
Sincerely, Scott Miller stmiller@crosslink.net
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