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May 14, 2003
Hmm
For a company that believed top-to-bottom (or so they said) in Open Source, and benefited tremendously from it (they would never have gone public, or lived past 2002 without having ridden the Linux coat-tails), Caldera has sure done an interesting turn.
Now, not only are they suing IBM for IP infringements, they are threatening to go after individual Linux users. Interesting strategy.
I've been involved with Caldera since they spun off from Novell's Corsair project. I was a strong advocate for Linux when I worked for a sister company. Linux was pervasive throughout the entire group of companies.
Mr. McBride may be protecting the interests of his stakeholders, but it's at the expense of the principles the company was founded on. And I think it's against the principles of SCO's largest shareholder, but I may be misinformed. And what are principles these days, anyways. I'm glad to be some distance now from this embarrassing disaster. I hope they go away soon, before the black eye spreads further.
Posted by pete at May 14, 2003 08:29 PM
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