mandrake begs for cash

[zscoundrel]

Again, that would depend on what the members of the group decide.  Most 
tech stock prices appear to be depressed right now, but that will start 
to change shortly.  I have seen investment clubs that have a certain 
direction or specialty.  Our would be technical companies because we 
already have a lot of background knowledge in this area.

I would like to lean towards the open source companies, because the 
press is going to be watching those and giving them a lot of free 
publicity in the near term because it is fresh and exciting and it will 
help them sell cars and soap.  (Which is what they do!)

The club will be run as an participatory investment club.  That mean we 
all contribute.  This means no passive investors.  If you discover a 
cool company with great products, you gather the information and tell us 
about it.  Then we vote and decide if it sounds good enough to invest in.

http://www.better-investing.org/
http://www.bivio.com/index.html
http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/invclub.htm

Gerald Combs wrote:
> What would qualify as an "open source/Linux" investment?  Companies like
> Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE are pretty obvious, but others are less so. For
> instance, does VA Software qualify?  Their flagship product (SourceForge
> Enterprise Edition) is no longer open.  Do Borland, Cisco and Novell
> qualify?  They sponsor, use and promote a lot of OS and Linux development.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, zscoundrel wrote:
> 
> 
>>That's my plan, but the actual investments would be for the club members 
>>to decide.  I assume that since it would be an open source/Linux 
>>investment club, not too many Microsoft employees would feel the need to 
>>join!
>>
>>Kurt Kessler wrote:
>>
>>>Of course the investing would be in open-source
>>>companies right? :)
>>>
>>>
>>>--- zscoundrel <zscoundrel at kc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Perhaps we should get some people together and form
>>>>an investment club, 
>>>>pool some money and buy some warrants.  I doubt we
>>>>would make a huge 
>>>>profit, but we might make a few bucks and save a
>>>>company that supports 
>>>>our software.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>J. Eric Gilliland wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Just so you know (not that you care, but WTF) I
>>>>
>>>>can't
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>afford to buy stock, certainly not $215 worth.
>>>>>
>>>>>I am, however, joining the MandrakeClub.  You were
>>>>
>>>>right,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>it is incumbent upon me to help save my chosed
>>>>
>>>>distro. 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Thanks for the push.
>>>>>
>>>>>Eric Gilliland
>>>>>
>>>>>--- zscoundrel <zscoundrel at kc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>You COULD buy some warrants.  At $2.15 per
>>>>>
>>>>warrant, 100
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>warrants is only 
>>>>>>$215.  Then when they DO announce they are
>>>>>
>>>>operating
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>profitably the 
>>>>>>underlying stock price will just several dollars a
>>>>>
>>>>share.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>I wouldn't invest the rent money, but if you had a
>>>>>
>>>>couple
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>hundred set 
>>>>>>aside for - let's say a playstation or something -
>>>>>
>>>>it
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>could possibly 
>>>>>>give you a tasty little return on your dollars. 
>>>>>
>>>>Not to
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>mention saving 
>>>>>>the company that puts together the Linux distro
>>>>>
>>>>that you
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>love.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>J. Eric Gilliland wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Yeah, I'm a little worried about this.  Looks
>>>>>>
>>>>like I
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>might
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>have to switch distros if they go under. 
>>>>>>
>>>>Hm...red hat,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>maybe?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I wish everyone a Happy Holidays,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Eric Gilliland
>>>>>>
>>>>>=====
>>>>>J. Eric Gilliland
>>>>>patzeric at yahoo.com
>>>>>
>>>>>The archaeologist has a unique chance to determine
>>>>
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>>>>they were.  His use of technical procedures in
>>>>reaching an ever more finely drawn chronological
>>>>scale needs no apology; these are prerequisite to
>>>>his determination of culture change through time, a
>>>>subject in which he should be able to work with
>>>>unique authority. 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>-- G. W. Brainerd 1951
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