[Fwd: [u-u] SCO event :|]

[James Knott]

Mike Kallies wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> ...
> 
>>> I have a Caldera Open Linux t-shirt somewhere.  I haven't worn it since
>>> this fiasco started.
>>
>>
>> I have a couple of Caldera penguins on my desk.  Perhaps I could throw 
>> them at the SCO people!  ;-)
> 
> 
> I was just looking at the Internet Way back machine and wow, 
> www.caldera.com is an interesting read.
> 
> In December, they even proudly displayed a link to the following article.
> 
> http://www.itweek.co.uk/Features/1135984
> 
> IT Week: Taking the SCO name has encouraged some observers to suppose 
> you are going back to Unix at the expense of Linux. Is that a fair 
> interpretation?
> 
> Darl McBride: It's not fair. We are more committed to Linux than ever 
> before. I understand the perception that we're going back to the 1980s, 
> but when we looked under the stones for hidden assets, we found that the 
> Caldera name had very limited reach and only into the US. But we sell to 
> 86 countries with multiple brands and SCO reaches into all of them. We 
> have to ask ourselves, are we trying to cater for the guys at Slashdot 
> [a popular Web site among Linux enthusiasts] or the larger business 
> audience?

I wonder how much Bill Gates paid him, to change his mind?


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