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Even worseEven worsePosted Aug 19, 2003 8:38 UTC (Tue) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339)In reply to: Wow! by AnswerGuy Parent article: SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek) It's worse than that...'cause your Brit may have gotten here on his own, but Caldera/SCOX obtained UNIX based on the windfall it received in its early 2000 IPO -- and IPO that shot incredibly high as the company benefited from hype surrounding Linux. Use Linux to acquire UNIX and then blame Linux for destroying UNIX. Caldera/SCOX should sue itself and give back the Linux-tainted IPO cash before complaining about the GPL. If Microsoft made the charges that SCOX is making it would be __less__ offensive. Isn't ANYONE left in SCOX that has a conscience about these things? Is there anyone in Lindon that wants to have a future in IT? Why aren't they stepping forward, leaking documents, swearing affidavits, mutinying against their feckless management and causing basic mayhem? Does everyone in Lindon drink the Kool-Aid?
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Hypothesis Posted Aug 19, 2003 12:04 UTC (Tue) by hathawsh (subscriber, #11289) [Link] Hypothesis: in recent years, the faithful Linux developers changed employment from SCO to Novell. The two companies are within minutes of each other.It would explain a lot, wouldn't it?
Even worse Posted Aug 19, 2003 13:23 UTC (Tue) by erat (guest, #21) [Link] Not quite. When Caldera acquired SCO assets (note, not all of SCO was acquired) Caldera was still a Linux company. You didn't hear jack about UNIX vs. Linux until the new management team took over. Ransom et al would have never done anything like what you're seeing today. SCO assets were never acquired with the sole intention of pitting UNIX against Linux at a later date; if anything, the SCO sales channel and the IP that the sales channel was selling (and the engineers maintaining the IP) were what Caldera acquired.Let the "SCO apologist" accusations begin...
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