Re: FPL steps down: what's the real story?

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On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 04/06/2010 02:39 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote:

> Meanwhile, back on the farm, Mark Shuttleworth pays his developers and
> doesn't get a cent back... for now.

Far from true.  You need to check your facts.

Oops! I missed this one. I received this message from Rahul and his email address appeared for reply. So, I thought it hadn't been posted to the group. So, here is what we came up to. I hope he will agree.

Rahul observed that Shuttleworth was getting some money back from Ubuntu's contrats with companies. I, of course, knew this. Ubuntu's contract with la Gendarmerie française has, amongst others, been widely publicised.

My point was that he wasn't breaking even. Rahul said that since Ubuntu is not a public company, it's impossible to know this for sure. And we don't.

But I read an interview with Shuttleworth less than 3 months ago and he certainly said so and though he's certainly a very shrewd businessman, I didn't hear anybody contesting this claim.

Certainly he isn't making the kind of money the people here seem to get from RHF:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=RHT

In his last email Rahul wrote:

"I have seen all that data before but I don't see the point you are
trying to make.  You might as well as state it directly."

Given the discussion we had here on some developers "contributing their work" for free... and others receiving a paltry pay in India, does anybody here have a problem understanding what I mean?
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