http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/1999/07/30/redhat_shares




All my open-source work was worthless, then. It takes money to make money, as they say, not skill, not talent, and certainly not altruism. 



We own the company in a far more real sense than any of the moneyed lords with sufficient "liquid net worth" to take part in the IPO. They're auctioning my software off on the New York Stock Exchange to the highest bidder, and I can't take part!




>>> silver carrots?
We coders had been abruptly disenfranchised, after having had silver carrots waved in front of our noses.