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There are people just going crazy about Linux.
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We had 6,200 people crammed into a room
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to see the Linux, Linus speak last night.
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Here we are, with, you know,
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all of these huge venders all over the show.
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I..It's, just, you have no idea that
this is gonna happen.
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I mean this is just this little operating system
that we're happy with.
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that a few people cared about, you know,
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I thought I'd have a nice little
consulting business.
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And here I am suddenly,
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with all of this huge show going on.
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It's just incredible.
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I mean, a year ago, you could look and say,
you know, this is gonna be big
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and everyone standing at the show going
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"You know the show was big last year,
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is it gonna, is it gonna be as big as this year?"
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The you remind them
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"You know, last year was only 6 month ago."
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And then they go "Oh, , Linux time".
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So leading up to the IPO, uh...
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we had arrived actually in San Diego
on Tuesday night
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We spent Wednesday morning meeting investors
in San Diego.
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We flew up to San Francisco
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spent Wednesday afternoon meeting
investment firms in San Francisco
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VA Linux Selected
December 9, 1999, as the day
for its stock to begin trading.
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then on the Thursday morning of the IPO is
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when our stock would be traded publically.
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So it was nice we had ended
the tour in San Francisco