Rad­ing an in­ter­view with Bruce Perens has been a re­al eye open­er.

Con­sid­er this:

For ex­am­ple, when I con­sid­ered be­ing an em­ploy­ee one of the things stand­ing in the way was the fact that Mark does­n't give his em­ploy­ees stock in his com­pa­nies. If I'm go­ing to work for some­one I'm go­ing to be a lit­tle en­tre­pre­neur­ial about it, so I felt that al­though Ubun­tu and Canon­i­cal could do a great deal for De­bian and be ex­cel­lent com­mu­ni­ty mem­ber­s, they were nev­er go­ing to be the core, and we could ac­tu­al­ly get clos­er to the core by fol­low­ing what I have set up for User­Lin­ux.

Now I un­der­stand! In or­der to be "the core", a com­pa­ny should give Bruce Perens stock.