Will SCO's Suit Chill the Penguin? (E-Commerce Times)
Posted Jun 13, 2003 2:59 UTC (Fri) by
josh_stern (guest, #4868)
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Will SCO's Suit Chill the Penguin? (E-Commerce Times) by erat
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Will SCO's Suit Chill the Penguin? (E-Commerce Times)
I'm talking about one key factor for why they had less than stellar P.R. with the
Linux/open source community. That factor was intimately intertwined with with
the community's general lack of trust. In retrospect, the community was kind of
correct because the owners of company took it in a number of different
directions when they decided that was a better way for them to make a buck
(embedded DOS alternative, proprietary Unix, etc.). I'm not disagreeing with
the points that people may have a) treated Caldera unfairly and b) shortchanged
or been unaware of their contributions. But I'm saying that there were things
about Caldera that always set them apart from the other Linux companies in a
way that made them seem less committed to both Linux and the direction in
which the bulk of the community wanted Linux to go.
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