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Ransom Love, Caldera Co-Founder Interviewed

Posted by michael on from the not-as-idiotic-as-he-usually-sounds dept.

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.'"

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  1. Open sourcing Unix by MoonFog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Indeed, at first we wanted to open-source all of Unix's code, but we quickly found that even though we owned it, it was, and still is, full of other companies' copyrights.

    And now this company is suing others for copyright violations. It becomes more and more clear that SCO will have a hard time documenting where the code lines in question originated, that they actually have and has always held the copyright on them.

  2. He sold his stock! by floppy+ears · · Score: 5, Funny

    When news of the IBM lawsuit broke, I sold the last of my stock.

    Sounds like the same game plan as Darl and the other SCO insiders!

    --

    "If I could live to be several hundred
    I could take a walk and really wander, really wonder."
    1. Re:He sold his stock! by Sandnor · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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...
  3. ASDF! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Okay.. we've finally done it.. that's a first.

    Two SCO stories SIDE BY SIDE on the FRONT PAGE. With no buffer.

    And to top it off, they're *both relevant*, and neither are reposts, and as far as i can tell weren't even rehashes of links posted in previous articles' comments.

    I am amazed. This is some kind of cosmic convergance. I await the falling of the stars into the sea.

  4. Speaking of Stock price... by Erik_the_Awful · · Score: 5, Informative

    SCO is taking on water. Looks like Wall Street finally figured out that investing in SCO == big loss. Check http://finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=SCOX"

  5. Bullhonkey... by fuqqer · · Score: 5, Informative

    With regards to the quote..."Only the attorneys win. "

    Reginald Broughton, the Senior VP of SCO, has made approximately $1,493,650 since June 20, 2003 in stock sale.

    Man, I wish I had the balls/money to perpetuate this scam. The worst they'll get is a slap on the wrist. If the Enron execs have gotten as little punishment as they have, what makes slashdotters think that the Federal SEC is gonna give a crap. Especially since it's a puny company perpetuating a stock scam based on a computer OS barely anybody outside of the technical realm has heard of.

    Not trolling, but at least it makes a lot of publicity for Linux in the business world and no publicity is bad publicity.

    -non trolling sig- You're already read this...it's too late not to finish.