On 10/15/2014 05:06 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
2014/10/16 5:46 "Ric Moore" <wayward4...@gmail.com
<mailto:wayward4...@gmail.com>>:
>
> On 10/15/2014 12:39 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> We've actually been in this place before. Wonderful Linux company
>> Caldera became SCO (oversimplification, but you know what I mean).
>> Wonderful Linux company Corel changed their CEO, and promptly accepted
>> money from Microsoft and dropped all their Windows software.
>
> [...]
> If you knew Caldera, then you would know that it started with
capitalization and focus by the retired CEO of Novell, Ray Noorda.
> Now that is my kinda guy, as he knew that Linux would grow to be more
than a desktop hobby toy. And, he put his own money where his mouth was.
He was not responsible for what happened after. I still have a copy of
the Caldera install CD and it worked like a charm on an aging ThinkPad.
But it was too pitiful to watch Netscape try to update itself. :) Ric
>
Yes, Noorda was a good guy.
I think Steve was talking about a later CEO.
Ransom Love and the rest did raise some valid points in the beginning,
namely MSdos was full of trap doors to kill off competition from DRdos.
They deserved to win the court contest. But, Caldera was Ray's
intellectual child, and it was the "The "SCO Group" that formed after
Ray had to leave, that went to the dark side. So, I tend to think of
them as two completely different entities. Just about the entire
original staff of Caldera was shown to the curb, when SuSe sauntered in
to lord over it all. Oh yeah, they knew BEST! You, go!
Everything Caldera stood for ~left with them~. There are a few of us who
email each other about once a year, to check to see who is still alive
and what they are doing. There was one with a painful divorce after
falling on unstable hard times, etc. So, these good people with good
hearts and even better minds do not deserve to be lumped in with the
utter BS later on that followed. I can't let that one pass. :) Ric
p/s I thought YaST sucked.
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