I would think that you could look at Lindows (Linspire). I know some of the distros in the embedded maekets have a precense in the various markets....VA Linux comes to mind...
I would say check the home pages for the various exchamnges she wants to deal with and see what you can come up with...or check the distro pages and try and contact their fnance/investing/promotions/etc. department. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Niels Voll > Sent: August 15, 2004 2:36 PM > To: CLUG General > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Linux on the Stock Market > > > the objective part: > > There are few publicly traded companies, who are mainly distro > companies. I believe Mandrake is still traded on the French stock > market, so that may be more difficult to trade from here in Canada. > > Then there are companies, who are very supportive of the Linux and > community, and count on Linux to in a significant way in their business > plans. including Novell (now the proud owners of SuSE) and IBM, as well > as VA Software Corporation, the company behind SourceForge and Slashdot. > > > the subjective part: > > If you have to ask about a company (any company, not just Linux > companies), you are gambling. If you don't believe me, run a very simple > experiment for a stock - I will use RedHat, ticker=RHAT as an example: > > Using the Yahoo stock charts, determine of you would have made or lost > money, if you would have invested 3 months ago, 6 months ago, 1 year > ago, 2 years ago and 5 years ago respectively: > > http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=RHAT&t=3m shows that you would have > lost a ton of money, if you would have bought RHAT stock. The stock > dropped from approx USD 26 to USD 14 over the last 3 months. > > http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=RHAT&t=6m&l=on&z=m&q=l&c= shows that > you would still have lost money, if you would have bought RHAT stock 6 > months ago, with the stock dropping from about USD 19 to the > current USD 14. > > http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=RHAT&t=1y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c= shows, that > if you would have invested a year ago, you would be in the money right > now, the stock having cost about USD 6 a year ago, and trading at USD 14 > right now. > > http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=RHAT&t=2y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c= buying 2 > years ago would have been in the money now > > http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=RHAT&t=5y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c= buying 5 > years ago would be trading at a huge loss right now > > > > If you are comfortable with that sort of gambling, have fun. If your > motivation is more one of "voting" for Linux, buy some Linux products or > services. > > > > Anyway, that's my CAD 0.02; > > ...Niels > > p.s. > USD = ISO code for US dollar > CAD = ISO code for Canadian dollar > > > Nick W wrote: > > >Quick question, I know a non-techie lady interested in Linux > stocks because of > >my preaching :) does anyone know which distros/companies are > traded beyond > >RH, and which would be good to buy? I realise the latter would be a > >subjective opinion, but may be helpful none the less. > > > >Thanks, > >Nick > > > >_______________________________________________ > >clug-talk mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
