Don't do business with a Canopy company

Don't do business with a Canopy company

Posted Aug 14, 2003 5:01 UTC (Thu) by erat (guest, #21)
In reply to: Don't do business with a Canopy company by walterbyrd
Parent article: SCO vs. the Linux world…what's a Linux user to do? (ZDNet)

Again, the religion and the collective alma mater of the CEOs means bupkus to me. I don't
care if they're all Mormon, Jewish, atheist, whatever, or if they went to the very Mormon BYU,
or the barely Mormon University of Utah, or the almost completely agnostic Salt Lake
Community College, Utah Valley State College, or Westminster College, or the College of
Massage Therapy, etc. Folks who live in the same area have things in common. This is not
unusual.

And once again I feel that you are narrowing "Canopy companies" into a small container that
includes only SCO and one or two other companies. There are many companies that have
received Canopy funding, are in Utah, and are not SCO, such as Linux Networx, SnapGear,
MaxSpeed, Fat Pipe, and DeviceLogics, and I have yet to hear you explain how they're part of
the conspiracy. By your own words, all that Canopy companies seem to do is produce
nothing, gather technologies, and sue people. Let's hear how the rest of the companies play
into this theory of yours.

Can I say with confidence that all of the companies you're throwing darts at are acting on
their own accord? No, at least no more than you can say with confidence that they're up to
something. We're in the same boat in that regard, although I may know more about Canopy
funded companies in Utah considering that I've worked for them since 1996 (and will
continue to work for them until the day before I go back to college full time next week). Are
you here in Utah? Or are you assessing this situation from a couple thousand miles away?

As for DR-DOS... Novell sued Microsoft. When Caldera purchased DR-DOS, the lawsuit that
Novell started came with it. Caldera merely finished it.

As for UNIX... Caldera did plenty with it, not the least of which was open up some of the
source code and add a Linux emulation layer to help Unixware customers start their
transition to Linux. What SCO's plan is now with Unixware is anyone's guess. If you think
they've only purchased Unixware so they could sue Linux users, I can only guess you haven't
paid attention to any of Caldera's press over the past few years up until the IBM lawsuit.

As for the Vultus deal... I give up. I can't see a single possible benefit to Canopy resulting
from the Vultus purchase. If you see one, bully for you. I'm tired of thrashing over it.

And if you think I'm an apologist, consider that my entire development team was let go from
SCO last November, and I'm leaving another Canopy funded company (my decision this time)
next week, thus releasing me from any and all ties with anything Canopy has touched. I
have no investments in Canopy companies so stock is not motivating me to speak. I am not
related to any Canopy employees, I am not Mormon, and at this point I have no vested
interest in any Canopy funded company succeeding or failing.

So tell me, what does your conspiracy manual tell you is motivating my responses other
than to refute the FUD you seem to be spreading?

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