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Ransom Love on United Linux, SCO Unix

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-falling-hammer-squashes-all-bugs dept.

tit4tat writes: "Caldera chief executive Ransom Love confessed to ZDNet UK that "[Caldera is] not moving Open Unix [i.e., the former SCO Unix] onto Intel's 64-bit platform...." I suspected that Caldera bought SCO just to kill SCO Unix, even though they denied it at the time. Now, the first Unix I ever knew is about to be no more. "

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  1. title by Dionysus · · Score: 5, Funny

    For some reason I read it as Random Love Unites Linux...

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  2. SCO should die by juan2074 · · Score: 5, Funny

    the first Unix I ever knew
    more like, the worst Unix I ever knew

  3. Re:Good riddens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe it was your poor grammar and inability to spell that caused your navigational woes.

  4. ransom note by jeffehobbs · · Score: 5, Funny


    wE hAVe YoUR UniX. PlaCE tWEnty
    THOusaNd DolLarS IN UnMArkeD
    hUNdreD DollaR BiLLs in OuR
    PaypAL AccouNT By JuNE 1St
    or wE WiLL kiLL -9 IT.

    ~jeff

  5. Re:Why I will never use United Linux... by Arandir · · Score: 2, Funny

    How is this different from any other Linux distro that has a trademark? You can't build Redhat from sources, burn it onto a CD, and call it "Redhat". You can't do it with Mandrake. You can't do it with Slackware. I'm not as familiar with the others, but Slackware has specific rules about calling a CD "Slackware". You have to have your CD laid out in a certain manner with certain files, etc.

    You can of course call those CD's "Redhat Derived", or "Unofficial Mandrake Burnings", or "Remarkable Slackware-Like Distro".

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