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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?"
morgan is getting hottttter!
well I blame SCO...
uhh...I don't remember it bieng alive!!!!
SCO is bad
Copy of the front page for you dick licking fuck lumbers:
Hardware | Software | Security | Commentary | Headline Archives | Briefs News Software Open-source shifts spell an end for UnitedLinux By Stephen Shankland CNET News.com January 23, 2004, 7:37 AM PT Add your opinion Forward in Format for NEW YORK--UnitedLinux, a four-company consortium formed to counterbalance Red Hat's dominance in the Linux market, is all but dead. "The legal entity exists, but I shut the lights out," former UnitedLinux general manager Paula Hunter said in an interview Thursday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here. Hunter is now channeling her Linux collaboration energies into a new job: director of business development on the East Coast for the Open Source Development Labs. The shutdown marks the end of an ambitious effort to attract more hardware and software partners, standardize Linux, and boost research and development. Instead, it was OSDL--a more neutral coalition in the Linux industry and the employer of Linux leader Linus Torvalds--that succeeded where UnitedLinux failed. "It's where we would have liked to have gone with UnitedLinux," Hunter said. "OSDL already has got the industry partners engaged--software and hardware companies and end users." Dramatic changes in the Linux landscape triggered the demise of UnitedLinux. Most prominently, one of its founding members, the SCO Group--previously Caldera International--has abandoned its Linux software business in favor of suing IBM and demanding that Linux users pay it based on its assertion that the open-source operating system is tainted with SCO's Unix intellectual property. But SCO refused to resign from UnitedLinux. "As long as they remained a member, it remained impossible for us to begin new projects," Hunter said. 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. SuSE's president, Richard Seibt, said Wednesday that his company will continue to cooperate with the other two UnitedLinux partners, Conectiva in Brazil and Turbolinux in Japan. It's good that UnitedLinux is fading, Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff said. SuSE achieved enough weight to counterbalance Red Hat on its own, and the consortium is now a mere "distraction," he said. Forward in Format for Related Links: > LinuxWorld: Novell's debutante ball > Novell advocates open source > Novell offers legal protection for Linux Add Your Opinion TalkBack: Post your comment here Click on a top-level comment to explore tree (4 total replies - 4 NEW ) R.I.P. *NEW* Eggs Ackley -- 01/23/04 SCO was the "guest that wouldn't leave" *NEW* Xunil_Sierutuf -- 01/23/04 Vendor Priorities from our sponsors Sales-force Case Study: BMC Software Key findings: BMC increased revenue, improved customer satisfaction with sales-management software Who/What: Siebel case study Fiorina debuts HP-branded iPod Carly Fiorina, CEO, Hewlett-Packard Gates shows off portable media device at CES Bill Gates, chairman, Microsoft The Netherlands focuses on tech innovation Clifford Sobel, U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands More Webcasts... CARROLL In defense of outsourcing GOODWINS Microsoft stuck in MikeRoweSoft mess WATKINS What's wrong with offshoring R&D 'Exploding' cell phone battery recalled 11:12AM Netscape, Playboy settle search trademark case 10:53AM Ariba to buy FreeMarkets for $493 million 10:25AM Microsoft to change protocol licensing 10:00AM Netopia pushes Wi-Fi cordless phones 09:47AM Microsoft-U.N. deal aims to wire poor nations 08:49AM Microsoft courts Lotus developers 07:40AM More... TECH UPDATE TODAY DAILY: Dan Farber and David Berlind deliver daily insights on the business and technology news that matters to enterprise IT. Enterprise Alerts IT Management IT Professionals
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Moe: Maybe...but _maybe_ we don't want to be Stonecutters no more.
[a crane removes a "Baskin Robbins" sign and replaces it with "Abandoned Store"]
Number One:Silence! I now call to order the first meeting of the ancient mystic society of...No Homers.
Can't they start a United No-SCOnix organization?
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