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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. The Secret to Better Bowel Movements by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  2. Re:title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Isn't Ransom Love a song from the 80's?

  3. Ransom Love is a stupid fuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... and his general cluelessness about Linux and the free software ethos habr driven his laughably pathetic Linux and embedded Linux businesses into the ground. "Merging" with (read: being acquired by) Linux companies having executives with at least some familiarity with what "computer science" means (versus mere chutzpah) is about the only way left for him to avoid collapse of his business. Like Mandrake, apparently, lack of even a *basic* business plan with even a *slight* chance in hell of success planted his feet and those of his investors firmly in a great big block of cement, all ready for tossing into the river.

    Pity the poor investors.

  4. Re:Here's a thought. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nice troll.

  5. L O V E by dbretton · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I like to eat my own scabs.

  6. My Name is my Handle.... by humungusfungus · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Okay, I hate to regress towards Dude Mentality, but I have to say it: Ransom Love is pretty much the coolest frickin' name I have ever heard. Period.

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    No sig.