VA made F&F shares available to anyone who could document an open-source contribution to Linux. I think my addition of the "-e" switch to chpasswd was sufficient.

I recall that I purchased 140 shares at $30. I held on to those shares the first day all the way up to $300/share or whatever it was, and then kept holding the shares in the coming days and weeks all the way back down. I eventually sold a few years later for maybe $1/share. At least the loss was able to offset some LTGC.

I purchased some wisdom with that experience.

Edit: I left the same comment on this story in 2014:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925266

(I must be really boring at parties.)