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Ransom Love, Caldera Co-Founder Interviewed
rootmon writes "The interview focuses mostly on Ransom Love's views of SCO Group's current dispute with IBM and the Free/Open Source Software Community. It also provides some insights on why Caldera purchased the UNIX business of SCO and their joint Monterey project with IBM. In summary, Love's view is 'My belief is that Unix and Linux should co-exist and should look and feel the same to application developers. Fundamentally, I would not have pursued SCO's path. You see, the challenge is building business. Litigation, no matter what side you're on, tears down businesses. Only the attorneys win. Companies should focus their energies on building their businesses, not on lawsuits. I don't see any positive outcomes.'"
I miss the old days of coolshit days...
when all the stories were new releases of cool software, or space projects, or garage tech projects people have done, or the latest-greatest walking robot to come out of MIT labs.
*sigh*
The tech world sure has changed.
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What you failed to mention is that he sold back when this mess first started. He sold when it was far below even it's current downward level. What you've just witnessed is someone with at least some moral fibre left. For that I applaud him. In a day and age when profit seems to be the driving force for most in America, he gave up a rather good chunk. This is not to say the man didn't make a profit, as I'm sure he made a butt load during the IPO/Post-IPO days. But it's far better then the current members of the company and their pumpers who are robbing the stupid blind. It's a rare find in this day and age to someone pass by profits in the name of moral high ground. Credit where credit is due.
Well I don't drink a lot of coffee...
It's fairly obvious that the old management respected copyright law and other companies' wishes, rather than believing in extortion and barraty as the ultimate business practices.
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....and then the economy when down the shitter. Now it's going to be nothing but lawsuits for the next 4 years.
Litigation, no matter what side you're on, tears down businesses. Only the attorneys win.
Unless of course you have stock in the company, and you sell off blocks of it after every press release.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - BF
If your not from here you have no room to talk. And the US does not have the highest crime rate per capita in the first world. That honor goes to Great Britin. As for the biggest consumer of the world's natural resources, wrong again. That would be China. A white male may be President but since blacks make up only 10% of the population they are over represented in government. Most minorities are well represented in their respective geographic locations, the the second highest office in california is held by a hispanic. Women are the ones behind power curve, yet they are a hell of alot better off than in countries like china and the middle east. No system is perfect, I notice you didn't have the guts to say where you are from so that we can air your dirty laundry. After 9/11, I fully support any action that will protect our citizens against those who would do us harm. Two thirds of all Iraqi's think that the ouster of Saddam was a positive thing. This man's regime killed more people than the actions the US has been involved in since 1972. This man has killed hundreds of thousands of people since he took power. What is going on their now is Iran & Syria are trying to take over, by trying to make us give up. It won't work.
My belief is that Unix and Linux should co-exist and should look and feel the same to application developers.
It's pretty silly that people still espouse this viewpoint. Every flavour of proprietary Unix is quickly dying. Linux and BSD have become technical equals and there is simply no more need for the remaining non-free "true Unix" relics. (nor is there any real money left in maintaining them) Expensive proprietary unices are why Microsoft won the desktop and was poised to conquer the server as well, had the free alternatives not risen up to save the day.
Proprietary "Unix" is dead. End of story. There's no need to co-exist. Out with the old, in with the new. That's progress.
After IBM initially filed a countersuit on August 7, SCO stock fell for about 3 days from $12 to about $8.75. That's almost %30 percent there. You could've said Wall Street was on to them earlier, but I think you're still wrong. Darl just wiped his ass called it a press release and suddenly his stock price jumped over the next few...erm, well until today.
The more I look at it, the better the deal for Darl and Pals, they can let IBM sue them or amend their case every once in a while. They let the stock drop a little the buy it back. Then they can sell it again after some more press (fecal)releases.
Never overestimate the intelligencia on Wall ST. or Joe Daytrader, they eat press releases up. That's why stock scams are successfull. It almost makes me wanna be a conservative, investor that is.
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Look at the poster's URL and name; I think people missed that here. And I hate to have to explain it. :/
The sad thing is the injustice when dealing with white collar crime. People who steal a few cars can get years of proson sentence, maybe as much as 5 years for every $10,000 they stole. Now, look at the white collar criminals. Since people really can't fathom number over one million or so, penalties are on a logarithmic scale, untill they become erratic because the really big crooks have huge legal teams.
Steal 10,000 get 5 years
Steal 100,000 get 10 years
Steal 1 million get 15 years
Steal 5 milions get 2 years
Steal 1 billion get 4 years.
Steal 50 billion settle for 2 billion, admit no wrongdoing and get 0 years.
-- Another senseless waste of fine bytes.