I believe Mark later used this to fund Canonical (it was worth $575 million). This is a good example of the debt based economy being flawed, including how it en

I believe Mark later used this to fund Canonical (it was worth $575 million). This is a good example of the debt based economy being flawed, including how it encouraged extracting more money from "consumers" (remember that for example IE did not support anything other than VeriSign, Thawte, and GTE CyberTrust until the then recently released NT4 SP6 and IE 5.01).