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Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2949] Netrek announced on Freshmeat
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:01:23PM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote:
>
> Caldera is going to have their IPO soon. If they do what VA did, they will
> let people who have submited apps to freashmeat in on it . For VA, that was
> worth about $17,000 if you sold on the first day. Caldera won't do nearly as
> well, but it will almost certainly be worth something. Probably just someone
> announcing other people's code to get credit for it. Happened to me before.
That's pretty funny. Actually, for VA, that was a net $41,800 if you sold
all 140 shares at the opening price of $320.
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