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Buying the kernelBuying the kernelPosted Oct 14, 2004 4:42 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)Parent article: Buying the kernel In the early days of Saturday Night Live, the producer, Lorne Michaels, made an offer of $3000 to the Beatles to have a reunion on the show. This is in the same league. As closed source, the Linux kernel is worth millions, not $50,000. He might as well ask Sun what they would charge for BSD-ing Solaris.
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Buying the kernel Posted Oct 14, 2004 19:12 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link] I've heard tell that three of the Beatles (John, Paul and either Ringo or George, I forget which) were watching Saturday Night Live from John's apartment at the time. Paul thought it'd be a hoot to surprise SNL (who clearly were joking about the offer) by showing up that evening, and had convinced the other two to go along with it. Before they got a taxi, though, one (John?) had to go back to the apartment for something and they then decided not to bother.
Buying the kernel Posted Oct 14, 2004 19:31 UTC (Thu) by chad.netzer (✭ supporter ✭, #4257) [Link] I seem to recall that George was actually part of that episode. He showed up at the end, and they showed him and Lorne talking, with Lorne explaining under his breath , "I can only give you the money if all the Beatles show up..."
But, yes, I read an interview with Paul, where he said he and John were hanging out and thought about going down there.
SNL/Beatles Posted Oct 15, 2004 19:36 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link] That's similar to the anecdote as Spider Robinson tells it in Lifehouse, his sequel to Deathkiller. The punchline is that Leonard Bernstein had reportedly offered then a million dollars a couple weeks earlier.
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