RE: [TCLUG:11009] To the roof with VA!

["Schlough, Mark" <Mark.Schlough@nmb.norwest.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Eric M. Hopper [SMTP:hopper@omnifarious.mn.org]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 09, 1999 4:38 PM
> To:	tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject:	Re: [TCLUG:11009] To the roof with VA!
> 
> On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 04:30:37PM -0600, Christopher Palmer wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Schlough, Mark wrote:
> > 
> > > Does anybody know how the process works, and how people are
> > > determined eligible to participate?
> > 
> > I don't know about Red Hat, but VA picked their list by looking
> > through the HOWTOs and the contributor lists of major Linux-related
> > projects. My friend Randy, for example, has worked on a module for the
> > kernel, and got the letter.
> 
> 	I got the letter because my project is on Source Forge.  Sadly,
> I couldn't do anything about it.  It would be nice to have a hand in
> investing my 401K or something.
> 
	Yeah, exactly.  There is a difference between being invited to
invest, and being eligible to invest.  I know with the RH stuff that many
many people where were invited to invest were disqualified, even though they
had cash to buy the stock, they didn't have the financial profile that
deemed them eligible to participate.

	That's the part I'm really driving at.

	Mark

> Have fun (if at all possible),
> 
	Absolutely (c: