On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 18:23 +0200, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
SCO was never about opening anything, and never will.
You already said you know nothing about the Caldera case. So you have already told me you don't know anything of what you're talking about.
IBM is not a problem, they have a completely different market than anything on the open source market.
Like Caldera-SCO? Like Sun? Like HP? And like Red Hat? 1 down, 3 to go.
The Linux share, is the end user market, that wants freedom.
Could you be more specific?
IBM is about their dynosaur Cray like machines, which are set for large corporate entities.
But what about pro-Linux companies that make money with select commercial services, software and support? Especially those companies that have given the _most_ GPL/LGPL? Sun, Red Hat and HP? And Novell is in that mix at some point too!
Linux has never been about "entering" that world,
But the companies developing and releasing the _most_ GPL/LGPL and pushing the _greatest_ Linux adoption _are_!
however> it has been the dream of SCO/Microsoft and any other small middle company, to kill that big old Dynosaur, known as IBM and get their share of the big heavy market.
Which Caldera made the mistake of entering with their purchase of SCO. A company that had a 100% Linux future on its mind, with all the benefits for Linux. Caldera actually thought IBM would abide by their contract terms. IBM knows how 90+% of Linux advocates (and 100% of the IT media) works.
I'm saddened to the amount of "corporate" people that are entering the Linux community, and eventually you'll kill this project the same way you killed Unix. Which is a sad thing, really ...
I'm saddened about how much people tune in for money. They think IBM is pro-open source and is spending that $1B on it. Or the $100M on Notes for Linux. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, technical annoyance mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Americans don't get upset because citizens in some foreign nations can burn the American flag -- Americans get upset because citizens in those same nations can't burn their own