Kevin Carmony's Blog: Michael Robertson, Where's the Cash?

Kevin Carmony's Blog: Michael Robertson, Where's the Cash?

As a San Diego resident and Linux user, Linspire has always had a fond place in my heart, if not my hard drive. Beyond that I have had cursory professional contact with both Michael Robertson and Kevin Carmony over the years, interviewing the former for a business class and having met the latter at local SDSIC (San Diego Software Industry Council) presentations. That said, you can understand why this news, and Kevin's expose of Michael's less than ethical behavior hit me like a ton of bricks. For most people this will probably be just another bit of corporate opera, and will pale in the face of the Enrons and Countrywides that have been in the news of late, but for those of us in the San Diego OSS community this debacle should, and for me does, garner a sense of personal sadness. I wish luck to the remaining shareholders and employees. Your contributions to mainstream Linux on the desktop will not be forgotten. With any luck the folks over at Cannonical can carry the torch you folks lit so many years ago.