[plug] Red Hat Shares non-offer

[Paul Wilson]

From: Bret Busby <bret at clearsol.iinet.net.au>
> I realise that I will probably appear naiive, and, no doubt, many would
say
> stupid for this, but, as a person who is using Red Hat 5.2, I thought, it
would
> be good to get a couple of hundred dollars worth of shares (a hundred
shares).

A hundred shares looked like being $1000-$1200 US from the information that
I found !!

> But, I believe that a company like Red Hat should have posted a notice on
Linux
> User Groups maling lists, and should have offered small parcels of shares
to the
> developers and users of the product, before going after the effluent
speculators
> and corporate investors.

I agree, but the suits (as usual) seem to have had a different idea.

Paul