SuSE may drop out of UnitedLinux

Corrado writes "According to this article over at Linux Box SuSE Is "Reevaulating Our Relationship" with SCO Group. There is also a reference to this article in wired about OSS developers rallying behind IBM. The best line of the article is "Eric Raymond called SCO's move 'deeply stupid...'""

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Wrong Wired Link

[Mr.Phil]

At my viewing, the wired article link goes to the talk back, not the article.

This is the correct link http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,579 55,00.html

Caldera sposored the work in question

[Anonymous Coward]

Caldera (as early as 1995) sponsored the work they now have a problem with.

The so called "Enterprise features" were developed by the Linux community on hardware provided by Caldera and with support of Caldera Engineers. Which means that they knew what development was under way, at the very least. IBM had very little to do with it, but some of the Linux Community hackers now work there (yeah IBM).

Caldera was involved in selling Linux into the traditional SCO markerplace long before IBM even took notice, and had some of the best talent in Utah, who had seen the internals of UNIX at Novell before it was sold to SCO, working on it.

This suit shows a complete lack of history at Caldera/SCO, which is not surprising since they have had huge staff turn over in thier death throws. Here's hoping they go away quickly, if not quietly... just like their bastard child Lineo did.

Re:Caldera sposored the work in question

[Alan Cox]

Let me provide specific data on that

Caldera provided me the SMP machine that was used to write Linux SMP support, that was why they provided it and thats one big reason it happened at that time.

And most of the theory for it came not from secret unix knowledge but a book 8)

Which Article Did Slashdot Editors Read?

[Carnage4Life]

According to the current text in the linked article SuSe explicitly stated that they still support UnitedLinux. The relevant excerpt is

"Accordingly, we are currently reevaluating our relationship with the SCO Group," Seibt continued. "That said, we want to very clearly and unequivocally voice our support of the ideals and goals of UnitedLinux and the Linux community."

Checking out the original press release on Linux Today doesn't seem to indicate SuSe is getting out of UnitedLinux either.

[OT] Re:ESR's Site?

[aridhol]

For some reason, tuxedo.org randomly forwards you to other sites. However, ESR's page is alive and well at http://www.catb.org/~esr/. I can't find any reason for the change on the website, though.

Re:SCO v. IBM...it's not gonna happen.

[Otter]

OK, for the zillionth time...

The group that controls SCO has a 5.8% share in TrollTech. They do not in any way control the company. Even by the usual standards of anti-Qt/KDE FUD, claiming they have any significant connection to SCO is pretty weak.

Consider the history of SCO...

[Black Copter Control]

SCO started out life as a part of (tada!) Microsoft under the name Xenix. The group was then then split off/sold to the Santa Cruz Operation and then morphed into SCO.

They just happened to purchase the rights to UNIX somewhere along the line (that somewhere being rather near the end).