-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 May 2003 11:21, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Sat, 17 May 2003 17:56:20 +0200
Mike
wrote: What I really find amazing, is that although they say they are dropping sales and distribution of linux, Openlinux was still available this morning at ftp.caldera.com
Makes you stop and wonder just how stupid these folks really are. Now it doesn't.. I lied about that part.
I think the whole thing is bizarre. My thought is that they really want to hurt the Linux business with the idea that it wil strengthen the SCO business.
Today, some of the biggest Unix vendors (IBM, HP) have major Linux platforms. The only real holdout in the Unix space is Sun. The key issue is that SCO collects royalties on all Unix products, and Linux directly competes with SCO's Unix offerings. I do think that they did make an error in that they were not initially prepared to take on the entire Linux community. I think the major thing here is that neither SCO nor IBM really want to take this thing all the way to the court system. The risk is too high. IBM and SCO will battle it out for a while, then settle. But now since the scope has widened, SCO may be committed. And, even if they settle with IBM, they have cast a shadow on Linux, which will cost us (the Linux community) some time, effort and cash to repair the PR damage.
Nah, I don't think Linux is getting hurt, at least looking at it as a 'Joe computer user' point of view. Most people out there still don't know about Linux in the first place, and many of *those* don't hardly have a clue what OS they have *now*, or what an OS even is. Since there's been nothing but pure speculation and spouting from SCO, and just as much/many knowledgable people explaining how SCO is full of it, I just don't see Linux being hurt any. Normally this might possibly mean something, but coming from a 'Joe user', I may be so wrong that it's sickening. John - -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin and my Gecko eat butterflies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+xo3VH5oDXyLKXKQRAmEzAKCVFlEmolqJFsPjPz2mnOKCfzViOACgnIxS u7XSRClIoGfV+c04xpBhWOA= =U6QA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----