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asking, saying, there's something happening here.
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There's a great business opportunity,
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to build the next Sun for open source.
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Well, the venture capitalists looked at this and said
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"Gee, you are selling systems
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the software is free. This is kind of scary.
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We're not sure that we want to put money in. And...
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by the way, we funded other systems companies
:44:30
and it hasn't really panned out. We are scared."
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I came to the US about 3 years ago,
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and the reason really was that I'd been spending
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like 6 or 7 years at Helsinki University.
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and decide it was time to see the real world
and not just university life.
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Especially this area had a lot of the most
interesting work being done.
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So I just decided that...
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let's try to move half way across the world,
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and give this a try.
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And it's turned out pretty well.
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[ Ah...you see this as temporary or long term? ]
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Well, we saw it as temporary at first.
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And I think it's certainly looking like
it's turning into long term.
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Our youngest daughter is
both US and Finnish citizen,
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because she was born here
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and the older one is speaking
both Swedish and English, so...