Who says support isn’t sexy? Certainly not the three founders of San Francisco’s Linuxcare, Inc. Though a recent advertisement featuring a cheeky parody of 3Com’s Palm V ad campaign may have been a touch too sexy for some, Linuxcare’s support business has plenty of appeal. Big league venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are investors in the company. And what started as an idea for an Open Source VPN (Virtual Private Network) software package between buddies at a Linux user group meeting, has now become one of the major players in the Linux community. Linuxcare’s three founders, Chief Technical Officer David Sifry, Executive Vice President Arthur Tyde III, and Vice President of Marketing David LaDuke recently sat down to dinner with Linux Magazine’s Executive Editor Robert McMillan and Publisher Adam Goodman following a tour of Linuxcare’s futuristic headquarters in San Francisco’s South of Market area.
LINUX MAGAZINE: How did Linuxcare start?
ARTHUR TYDE III:We were in the bagel business. We had this idea for refillable propane cylinders.
DAVID LaDUKE: That’s enough wine for you Art. No more wine for Art. We were all working together on other things…
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