While I do (mostly) trust Wikipedia, this (Ewing inventing Red Hat) doesn’t come from that source. I was there.

We all want to be rich. ;-) Both Taco and Linus deserve to be highly rewarded for the value they have created that the rest of us benefit from. (Although for the newbies and humor-challenged readers: Slashdot did not invent Red Hat. That would be Marc Ewing.)

“The KO blow to UNIX was when Slashdot invented Red Hat and pitched it to Linus.“ This is brilliant.

No, it wasn’t the Covid downturn that killed them. It was the $600 million of debt. Never a good idea to pile that much debt on a low margin business.