Doug Michels & Ransom Love speak pre-Caldera Forum

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.

Comments

This guy is a troll. And a bore.

[cculianu]

Who cares? He's the CEO of Caldera.. BIG DEAL! Am I supposed to be impressed? He, like all management types, is obviously a business troll. He has done nothing to add to the general knowledge or to contribute to OSS personally using his intellect.

Give me interviews with greats like Ritchie, Thompson, Torvalds, Stallman, Wall, etc.. and I will listen to what they have to say! Who cares what some CEO thinks about Linux? Even if he is a CEO of a company that works with Linux, he is still a CEO!

NEWS FLASH: Slashdot is supposed to be "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." Interviews with the faceless CEO of Caldera is neither "News for Nerds", nor does it matter.

I am sure 99.9% of us here on slashdot will agree with that assesment.

Anything this CEO in a monkey suit has to say either puts me to sleep or is as profound as "P implies P".

Ransome should be kicked out by the shareholders

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

I've worked for Caldera years ago : these guys are going to be trading pink slips very soon, and Ransome deserves most the blame for it (the rest of the blame go to dipsticks Benoit and Pomeroy and some others): they were the biggest Linux vendor when RH was only a small software shop, and they could own the Linux desktop and server space instead of them by now : instead they let RH shaft them over RPM. Of there is also meltdown of Caldera's QA/test department, the SCO buyout and of course, Ransome's approving of Microsoft FUD and Ransome's latest blooper on per-seat Linux licenses.

Love never understood the OpenSource movement or the GPL, and probably never understood how to run a company either. It's amazing Caldera has been around for so long with the CEO consistently doing the Wrong Thing [tm].