My Name is Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda -- Millionaire. I Own a Mansion and a Yacht. : )

Joel Meulenberg joelm at blueribbon.com
Mon Jul 5 23:27:06 CDT 1999


By now many of you have probably heard the news of Slashdot (i.e.- "News for
Nerds.  Stuff that Matters.") being sold to Andover.net.  The sale of
Slashdot was announced on the Slashdot site last week.  (See it here:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/06/29/137212&mode=thread .)

At previous meetings we'd kicked around the idea of inviting
Holland,MI-native Rob Malda (AKA "CmdrTaco") to one of the GR.pm gatherings.
That was when he was just a food item.  Now he's a millionaire!  (At least
according to http://www.redherring.com/insider/1999/0701/vc-slashdot.html .)

After he pays off his college loans (for attending Hope College), he plans
to "give back" to organizations like the Free Software Foundation, Debian
Linux, etc.  But my favorite is his idea of establishing a "Hot Chick Going
into CompSci" scholarship at Hope College!

My hat is off to Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates for doing what
they love, doing it well, and creating a wonderful ezine/community that
promotes open source in the process.
--
Joel Meulenberg





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