Ransom Love, Caldera Co-Founder Interviewed 237
rootmon writes "The interview focuses mostly on Ransom Love's views of SCO Group's current dispute with IBM and the Free/Open Source Software Community. It also provides some insights on why Caldera purchased the UNIX business of SCO and their joint Monterey project with IBM. In summary, Love's view is 'My belief is that Unix and Linux should co-exist and should look and feel the same to application developers. Fundamentally, I would not have pursued SCO's path. You see, the challenge is building business. Litigation, no matter what side you're on, tears down businesses. Only the attorneys win. Companies should focus their energies on building their businesses, not on lawsuits. I don't see any positive outcomes.'"
Re:SCO Day? (Score:4, Insightful)
when all the stories were new releases of cool software, or space projects, or garage tech projects people have done, or the latest-greatest walking robot to come out of MIT labs.
*sigh*
The tech world sure has changed.
Re:He sold his stock! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Ransom says Intel prevented Open Source Unix ?? (Score:5, Insightful)
It's fairly obvious that the old management respected copyright law and other companies' wishes, rather than believing in extortion and barraty as the ultimate business practices.
frob
Re:SCO Day? (Score:2, Insightful)
And Stock (Score:2, Insightful)
Litigation, no matter what side you're on, tears down businesses. Only the attorneys win.
Unless of course you have stock in the company, and you sell off blocks of it after every press release.
Re:God Bless America (Score:1, Insightful)
Co-exist? Hardly. (Score:3, Insightful)
It's pretty silly that people still espouse this viewpoint. Every flavour of proprietary Unix is quickly dying. Linux and BSD have become technical equals and there is simply no more need for the remaining non-free "true Unix" relics. (nor is there any real money left in maintaining them) Expensive proprietary unices are why Microsoft won the desktop and was poised to conquer the server as well, had the free alternatives not risen up to save the day.
Proprietary "Unix" is dead. End of story. There's no need to co-exist. Out with the old, in with the new. That's progress.
Re:Speaking of Stock price... (Score:2, Insightful)
The more I look at it, the better the deal for Darl and Pals, they can let IBM sue them or amend their case every once in a while. They let the stock drop a little the buy it back. Then they can sell it again after some more press (fecal)releases.
Never overestimate the intelligencia on Wall ST. or Joe Daytrader, they eat press releases up. That's why stock scams are successfull. It almost makes me wanna be a conservative, investor that is.
-non siggy ztardust-
Re:Short term investors (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Bullhonkey... (Score:4, Insightful)
Steal 10,000 get 5 years
Steal 100,000 get 10 years
Steal 1 million get 15 years
Steal 5 milions get 2 years
Steal 1 billion get 4 years.
Steal 50 billion settle for 2 billion, admit no wrongdoing and get 0 years.