Its a time to sit back and be calm (Score 1)

I know Larry Augustin pretty well. I met Larry BEFORE all the explosive growth started, back when there were only about 20 people in the firm. I also know an awful lot of the people at VA in both high and low positions. I have a party every year at Spring Comdex that is always well attended by VA folks. Larry and the corporate culture that he has built around him are superlative in so many ways that it would take several pages just to make comments enough to do it justice. Bottomline, it just does not fit. When I would discuss the IPO (both before and after the fact), it was always a stepping stone on a path to those guys, not "a score." Nope, it can not be, this is not the Larry that I know to be so generous to others.

What the persons at this law firm are probably not aware of is the role that VA has taken for us all as a community. NO COMPANY has taken a larger or more active role in building, supporting and caring for members of the Linux and open source universe. Just think of the tools provided to us FREE via Source Forge alone. Let us remember how that IPO they are complaining about, was about as open to the community as it could possibly be. Again, I could go on for a couple hours here about all the cool stuff and good deeds done by that team of Uber Geeks.

Every person in the Linux community owes many debts to VA, even if you are not aware of them. And, along with other leaders of this community, every person in this nation owes a debt to Larry for what the leaders of this community have done for the IT world. Larry was a big part of that community team, that community effort that has helped stop the total dominance of IT by Microsoft & Sun.

This Guy and This company are class acts.

Lets start repaying the debt owed by being calm and letting VA's legal team get in place and do their job. This is the US folks. Innocent until PROVEN guilty and all that stuff. If indeed some person at Credit Suisse has made some side deal it should be prosecuted. But, I have no fear that VA with persevere and come out clean.