SCO v. IBM reopened

Posted Jun 19, 2013 0:38 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
In reply to: SCO v. IBM reopened by dlang
Parent article: SCO v. IBM reopened

As someone who was using Linux in business at that time, I can say that both of these things were seen as advantages, not disadvantages.

By some folks, I guess.

However, Caldera's general attitude prevented them from winning the market competition with Red Hat. What Linux to run was generally recommended to companies by people inside the company who had become involved with Linux on their own time. These folks were in general offended by things said and done by Caldera.

I remember a particular painful incident, in which Ransom (who was a nice guy personally but far from the sharpest knife in the drawer) talked about himself as a father of 8 and about Caldera being the wise dad and the Open Source community being like Ransom's teen-agers.

I was offended on multiple levels. I doubt I was the only one in that audience who felt that way. But it was an accurate representation of how Caldera treated its relationship with Linux and Open Source.

Bruce