They aren't anymore. Red Hat share prices have dropped 92 percent since the beginning of the year. Caldera has similarly been hammered. Tuesday, it closed at a little more than 10 percent of that price. Brokers say not to sell it, but not to go out of your way to buy it, either.
Some brokers rate it as a moderate buy, while one says it's a strong buy.
So while some people have made money off of Linux equities, by selling them, a whole lot have lost money. Before we go much farther, a couple of things have to be noted. He meant that if you're familiar with an industry, you have a leg up in picking the winners and eschewing the losers. They thought that this was the wave of the future, and they were right. They thought that heaving huge amounts of money blindly at it all would yield vast and boundless profits.