“…it’s that Young’s ideas are, well, tough to digest. As in:
“It’s great that so many people pass along free copies of our
product.” Huh? And “I’m proud to say that I think we have the
lowest revenue per customer of any company in America.” I repeat:
huh?”
“It’s weird stuff, but don’t think for a minute that Young is
some kind of freeware freak. He’s really a hard-charging tech CEO,
espousing a fairly traditional business model. It just sounds
strange because it’s couched in the logic of the wacky but
burgeoning business that is Linux.”
“The reason I went down to Carolina was to find out about
Linux–which is supposed to be the first real threat to Microsoft’s
dominance–and whether there’s any way for investors to get in on
it…”