[clug] Online protest against SCO

Gary Woodman antigramp at yahoo.com.au
Mon May 26 12:23:27 EST 2003


--- Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au wrote:

> In a nutshell, Caldera has no worthwhile products to offer the
> market.

OTOH, Caldera was the only Linux distro I ever tried that would allow
you to mount its CD over an SMB share (i.e. on a Windows box).

> Their aquisition of SCO's IP gave an interesting exit strategy; sue
> IBM
> and get bought out by IBM because settling these things out of court
> is usually cheaper. Unfortunately (for Caldera) IBM has decided to
> see their bluff.

As, hopefully, will everyone else SCO threatens. They *owned* Unix, and
built on it... a flaky legal case. SCO won't be missed. 

Gary

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