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They buy it becouse they believe that it will make them money. No one ever bought a stock becouse of morals, or to better the community. One could argue that releasing things publically instead of holding them as proprietary isn't in the best interest of the shareholders. This is where the pain is going to start to set in, and we shall all see if these companies will thrive, or start stabbing eachother in the back. I think, at the moment, it *IS* a 20$ stock. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's undervalued. From over 320$ opening day, to a little over 20. It was the most spectacular rise AND fall of a stock ever. Their stock will now end up having whole chapters devoted to it. What worries me is that it looks more and more to be a flash in the pan.Ī perfect example would be, sorry to say it, LNUX, Aka, VA Linux. This will determine if the commercial interests in Linux are really just a flash in the pan, or here to stay. ers should be prepared, however, for the coming mergers and cost-cutting measures by just about every tech company out there. The extra cash that these companies had on hand was just glycerine on the fire. I do not dispute that even without money, Linux development will continue and continue to accelerate. Since open-source-based companies give their products away, if they have more money for more developers (full-time) then if you use their products, you have benefited. Think of the benefits that you personally have received from the large amounts of money invested in tech stocks. Now the bottom has dropped out of a lot of these stocks and Linux is not immune. Fund managers have been forced into adopting a scheme of investing ahead of reason in order to maintain a competitive edge. No one disputes that there are many technology stocks which are over-valued for their revenue. While I would not go so far as to accuse CmdrTaco of a conspiracy (at least on this issue), there may actually be a story here which could impact a large chunk of us. It's just too early to tell how it will turn out. It's entirely possible that the big bucks in the Linux market will be made by companies like IBM, SGI, and SCO. I'm positive they'll turn into a strong, profitable company, but that it's anybody's guess whether they will be a profitable $20M company or a profitable $20B company. The Open-Source model just won't support it. Even if they get 90% of the OS market, they'll never have the outrageous margins that MS had/has. RedHat, for example, will never be the cash cow that Microsoft was in the '90s. It's not at all clear where and how much money will be made in the market. It's pretty clear that Linux will continue to grow exponentially over the next few years. I'm even kind of glad that the Linux stocks have returned to sanity. It was getting really annoying to see these outrageous valuations for money-losing companies. As somebody who holds a little bit of stock in a profitable brick-and-morter retailer, this is kind of gratifying. So seeing a need I filled it, here are some pictures and contact info can be found in my signature below or you can PM me.I was wondering how long the tech. GM also uses 1-1/4" caps on their trucks. The Willys uses a 1-5/8" cap, Ford uses a 1-1/4" cap, Mopar and GM both use a very strange thread 3/4x18. I started to do some research into what master cylinder cap sizes there were. After doing this for mine I thought that it would work on almost anything that had the master cylinder under the floor. In the end I had a rubber bellows in the top to separate the brake fluid from the atmosphere, a stainless barbed bulkhead fitting in the bottom of the can, and I sourced reproduction master cylinder caps that I modified to accept a 1/4" barbed fitting. I also found a vented cap that would screw on. Basically the type of can you get pvc glue in. I also needed a can for the reservoir and I found a place that sells cans with delta thread caps. The first thing I saw was that the fitting was recessed into the cap and held lots of debris around the threads. For the Willys I got an FC170 (Forward Control) master cylinder cap as these cab over trucks had a remote reservoir mounted to the dash. I have built many hot rods professionally and run into the same problem of hard to access master cylinders under the floor. The choices I found were either billet aluminum or plastic and that looks completely out of place under the hood of a vintage car. I wanted to put a remote reservoir on to it to make it easier to fill. I learned right away that the master cylinder was near impossible to fill from the top and you can't see how much is in it when filling from the bottom without a mirror. This all started when I got a 55 Willys wagon.