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United Linux Dead
DesScorp writes "ZDnet has a story about the impending demise of United Linux, with former general manager Paula Hunter stating that 'the legal entity still exists but I turned the lights out'. While a couple of reasons were given for UL's demise, most of the blame was firmly laid on the shoulders of SCO. As a member of group, their lawsuits killed off any real product development. SCO apparently refused to resign from UL, and Hunter said that 'As long as they remained a member, it remained impossible for us to begin new projects'. Which brings up the question, couldn't the other group members have kicked them out?"
SCO joined UL before the lawsuits began.
I live in Utah and we have a little weekly paper calld the Salt Lake City Weekly. This week they had an article on the whole SCO debacle. It can be read here. Not a whole lot on the UL effort but an intereting read into the shennagings going on here. I just was reading it on lunch at work and came back to this.
Hold up, wait a minute, let me put some pimpin in it
Thanks
Bruce
Bruce Perens.
What obligations? Paying SuSE? The UL base was pretty much created and maintained by SuSE, with the other vendors supposedly making their own "add-on" modifications. I don't think SCO/Caldera ever actually added anything, though.
Hell, SCO never even changed the name on the kernel source package, which stated pretty clearly that it came from SUSE.
MOD PARENT DOWN!! IMPERSONATION!
Look closely at his name! RAY_R_NOND? looks like raymond but spelled rayrnond. See it?
See the FAQ
They just reincarnated as Desktop Linux Working Group. No SCO this time...
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Before there was the SCO Group there was Caldera/SCO and these two groups where very different.
Jan 2000
Jan 2001
Jan 2002
Jan 2003
And of course present
Quack, quack.
SCO's Linux reversal isn't the only change, though. SuSE Linux, whose software formed the foundation for a version shared by all four companies, has been acquired by Novell. Along with that acquisition will come an endorsement from IBM, the loudest Linux advocate, in the form of a $50 million investment in Novell.
So you see - there are other things too that matter(ed) here."Otter: TurboLinux is essentially gone, I haven't heard a peep about Connectiva in at least a year"
TurboLinux recently released TurboLinux 10 just a few months ago, they aren't gone.. they've been fairly active too.
Connectiva just recently released Conectiva Linux 10 TP2 2 days ago.
Both of these distros are not dead! They have pretty up to date packages and all!
SuSE will continue to work with partners to certify hardware/software, just like we do now.
- A SuSE employee
While it's definately SCO's fault that UL as it originally was conceived failed, it was IBM's insistance that SuSE not leave UL and reform with the other two UL companies that put the final kybosh on the whole idea.