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Doug Michels & Ransom Love speak pre-Caldera Forum

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the closer-and-closer-together dept.

A reader writes "Now that SCO Forum has been rebadged as Caldera Forum, I decided to duck out of it this year. But according to this interview, Ransom Love doesn't want to make too many changes. The same cannot be said for Linux and Unix though, where it looks like he's pretty much given up on Linux on the desktop except as a thin client with Tarantella. Coincidentally, there's an accompanying interview with Doug Michels, where he talks about life post-Unix. Seems like the two companies are pretty tight. " Update: 08/17 6:29 PM by M : Jason Perlow wrote in with his review of OpenUNIX 8.

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  1. Maybe it's all that cough syrup... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But does anyone else think that Caldera's symbol(tm) looks like Mickey Mouse casting an ominous shadow over Mars? Is there something Disney hasn't told us?

  2. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    post

  3. F. C. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first compost

  4. Linux Sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi!

  5. Big Customers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Amusing that Love brags about deals with "KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut", since the three brands belong to the same company (Tricon Global, NASDAQ:YUM). I wonder who big brand number four is.

  6. Fact: *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    *BS is dying

  7. Fthem all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    F them all title of the new Red Hat 7.2 rlease

  8. jewish girls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i love them..they give great blowjobs.

  9. wtf... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wtf are you talking about???

    You might want to actually read the links before you make comments...

  10. Thats disgusting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You might as well get a blowjob from a monkey. At least then it wouldn't be trying to corrupt you with Jew propaganda at the same time.

  11. What do you get when you merge Unix and Linux? by The+Gline · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Lunatix?

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  12. That's unpossible! by Mike+Schiraldi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Doug Michels & Ransom Love speak pre-Caldera Forum

    That's nice. How about "Hemos speak English"?

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