What about the management change?

What about the management change?

Posted May 29, 2003 19:23 UTC (Thu) by jensend (guest, #1385)
Parent article: Caldera/SCO Linux: Obituary

LWN left out an important point: the changing of the guard shortly before the renaming. When Ransom Love left the company and McBride took over as CEO, the Caldera people had known, loved, and had spats with concerning per-seat licensing ceased to exist. Some people who were involved in SCO years ago have posted to websites saying "This isn't SCO as I knew it, it is Caldera which changed its name to SCO. SCO was a good company." Well, the new SCO isn't Caldera either.

Ransom Love and others at Caldera may have made some poor business decisions and managed to tick people off (I always thought their position on per-seat licensing was perfectly sound- you could copy any of the open source software in their distribution and use it on multiple machines, as required by the licenses, but disallowing doing the same with the entire product was perfectly reasonable) - but the real Caldera would never have been involved in any of the kind of stuff the new SCO is doing.

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