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.'"

Comments

Re:SCO Day?

[zapp]

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.

Re:He sold his stock!

[Sandnor]

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.

Re:Ransom says Intel prevented Open Source Unix ??

[Frobnicator]

What can they do? Did they threaten to beat Ransom Love up if he GPLed it?

You should read the line right before that statement. It says we quickly found that even though we owned it, it was, and still is, full of other companies' copyrights.

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.

frob

Re:Bullhonkey...

[blang]

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.