[luckydude]

BTW, Linus switched to Git 2005. BitKeeper didn't give up and turn to open source until 2016. So we had a 10 year run after Git showed up where people still paid us.

It was good run, not many software companies get an 18 year run. I'm fine with it, would have liked to do more for my people.

Though, when we were shutting things down and I was bumming that I had not gotten retirement money for all of my people, one of them said something like "Dude, are you kidding me? My best friend barely knows his kids, he is out the door by 7am to fight Houston traffic and not home until close to 7pm. My commute is from my bedroom to my office down the hall. I've got to help my wife with the kids, I see the kids all day every day, my life is infinitely better than my friend's life and you gave that to me. You're fine."

I'm a wimp, I teared up a bit, that was the nicest thing he ever said to me. It's not just about money.