> The crazy first day of the IPO of VA Software (+698% above initial price!!!) VA made F&F shares available to anyone who could document an open-source contrib

> The crazy first day of the IPO of VA Software (+698% above initial price!!!) VA made F&F shares available to anyone who could document an open-source contribution to Linux. I think my addition of the "-e" switch to chpasswd was sufficient. I recall that I purchased 140 shares at $30. I held on to those shares the first day all the way up to $300/share or whatever it was, and then kept holding the shares in the coming days and weeks all the way back down. I eventually sold a few years later for maybe $1/share. At least the loss was able to offset some LTGC. I purchased some wisdom with that experience. Edit: I left the same comment on this story in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925266 (I must be really boring at parties.)