Ransom Love to Focus on UnitedLinux

morhoj writes "Looks like Ransom Love, who recently was host to a /. interview, has been replaced as CEO of Caldera and is now exclusively leading the UnitedLinux initiative. Some other stock buybacks and board swaps also happened at Caldera. Can't say that I'm all too pleased by this, I for one didn't like some of his answers in the interview, specifically that fees would be required to become "UnitedLinux" certified. That should really help wider Linux adoption."

Comments

A few corrections

[einhverfr]

Caldera bought DR DOS from Novell, sued Microsoft, settled out of court, and promptly sold it to Lineo. It is still, BTW, closed source, though Lineo is using it to expand its roles in the legacy and embedded device areas.

The basic problem here is that Love has made Microsoft-inspired statements about the GPL, helped his company get a large chunk of their capital from suing Microsoft, buying worst-of-breed products (like SCO), etc. Is he really the person you want to have head the United Linux effort?

I personally think that United Linux will flop, and may take down Turbolinux, SuSE, and Conectiva as well. I would include Caldera as well, but that company has already lived up to its namesake ;)

Re: SCO and Mickeysoft

[cant_get_a_good_nick]

On the Microsoft thing, you have to remember Microsoft created XENIX, mostly by farming it out to SCO to do the port. XENIX eventually became what is now OpenServer 5, which was SCO's mainline (and only UNIX) for many years. Kind of hard to hate MS when they formed the core of their business for decades. MS also owns some amount of the old SCO, dunno how that played out with the Caldera purchase. A lot of XENIX => OpenServer code had MS copyrights, and MS got a cut of every OS5 sale until 1997 I read...