Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign. [LWN.net]

Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.

Posted Jul 25, 2003 17:06 UTC (Fri) by mmarkov (subscriber, #4978)
In reply to: Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign. by walterbyrd
Parent article: SCO's claims have absolutely no credibility (ZDNet)

1. What is The Canopy Group? I have never
heard of it before, today I see the name
twice (in a comment after the ZD
article as well).

2. Aren't TrollTech "good guys"? Why are
they in the list?

Again, about the Canopy Gr. Is that an
alliance of those companies (SCO, TrollTech, etc)?
Like, say, Lufthansa, Air Canada and other air
companies are in the Star Alliance? Or is it
an owner of certain portions of their shares?
I hope none of these -- because of the importance
of TrollTech for us.

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Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.

Posted Jul 25, 2003 17:32 UTC (Fri) by jeff@uclinux.org (subscriber, #8024) [Link]

Canopy is Ralph Noorda's VC firm. It owns (and in most cases controls) large
parts of these companies. It is run by Ralph Yarro, and he has stated in the
press that SCO mess is of his design (also "...if you mess with me..."). Sad.
These guys were responsible for a huge chunk of the money spent on Linux
during the bubble, and IMHO, they are now angry they didn't have commercial
success.

Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.

Posted Jul 25, 2003 17:53 UTC (Fri) by drathos (guest, #6454) [Link]

The Canopy Group owns SCO and many other companies. Their connection to Trolltech is that they own a 4.1% stake in it (follow the trolltech url listed above). SCO itself also has another 1.6%.

The funny thing is that, if you go to the Canopy home page, they make it seem like they own Trolltech by listing it with all those companies they *do* own.

Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.

Posted Jul 25, 2003 18:43 UTC (Fri) by mmarkov (subscriber, #4978) [Link]

"""Their connection to Trolltech is that they own a 4.1% stake in it (follow the trolltech url listed above)."""

Hmm. According to that page (the link was provided by someone at ZD's forum), Ralph J. Yarro sits on the board of directors for Troll Tech. I have no idea how bad^H^H^Himportant this is.

Boycott SCO/Canopy email campaign.

Posted Jul 25, 2003 19:45 UTC (Fri) by drathos (guest, #6454) [Link]

That's probably due to the amount of shares that the Canopy Group holds. In general, the Board of Directors for a company is made up of the major investors (or their representatives).