NewsForge: There’s GOLD in them thar (Linux) Hills!

“The company name is Linux Gold. The URL is linuxgoldcorp.com.
This name is brand-new. It used to be LinuxWizardry, and before
that it was called Flame Petro-Minerals. What does the company do?
It owns gold mining claims in Alaska. But, says CEO/President John
Robertson, ‘We still use the name ‘Linux’ because we have Linux
antispam and antivirus solutions in the company, and we don’t
really want to dispappear from the Linux scenario.’

“Ummm, okay. The story, according to Robertson (and old press
releases and news stories we found) goes something like this:

“Once upon a time there was a private company called Flame
Petro-Minerals based in Vancouver, Canada, whose prime asset was a
trio of oil wells in Texas that Robertson says produced 1.5 million
barrels of oil. On the strength of its oil revenue, the company
went public, and managed to acquire LinuxWizardry of Boca Raton,
Florida, (makers of the Magic Passage(TM) DSL/Cable Router) along
with some ISP and Internet portal-type ‘properties’ that seem to
have died and left behind nothing but a few dead or obsolete Web
pages…”

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