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Red Hat takes over IBM (cringely.com)
32 points by smacktoward on Oct 29, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Remember that Cringely did a kickstarter and didn't follow through and kept all the money, attributing it to his kids.

60-odd days left...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely

On May 22, 2017, Stephens published an update on his personal blog[25] claiming that he had run out of money and had decided to turn the project into a startup. On January 2, 2018, Cringely announced that, while the Mineservers had been burned along with his home during the October 2017 Northern California wildfires, there would be "a spec update and a new shipping schedule in a couple more weeks."[26] In a comment on his personal blog dated May 21, 2018, Cringely announced that "every supporter will get their Mineserver before the end of this year."[27]


Mark Bob ran with the 'NeXT takes over Apple' meme also featured here.

Did not make a bad job of it.




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