Does Unisys Really Get It?

Joe Barr writes "There's an interesting story on NewsForge today about Unisys and its new-found love for Linux. In the story, Robin Miller interviews Unisys VP of engineering Anthony Gold and asks such delicate questions as how Unisys 'planned to make amends for its use of GIF patents against open source projects'? It's a good read, and in this day and age of software dinosaurs trying for peaceful co-existence with Linux, a very timely one."

Comments

Re:Coexistence?

[bogie]

If you think that Nader doesn't really matter than you must have not paid attention to the last election. Without Nader A) GWB might have actually won the election legally and in the clear or B) Al Gore would have clearly won and the world would be a much different place. So yes IMHO Nader does matter. Why do you think Republicans are scrambling so hard and spending so much money in order to get Nader on the ticket in so many states? Oh right, they believe in the Democractic process. That and he doesn't matter of course.

Re:Coexistence?

[squiggleslash]

A weekend democrat... is that like a weekend driver?

The funny thing is that Nader has done the exact opposite of what he claimed to have wanted to do. There's little doubt that Kerry is far more of an establishment, middle of the road, uninspiring candidate than Gore was. Gore was an environmentalist, he had a certain amount of vision, and it seems unlikely to me he'd have ever have been in the running for President had he not been picked as VP by Clinton.

At the primaries, the nearest candidates to Gore were kicked out in favour of the candidate the media and the DNC establishment clearly wanted. Howard Dean, the nearest thing to the type of candidate Nader claimed to want, ultimately made a lot of noise but never got anywhere.

I know what Nader is claiming to want to do, but I see a gulf between the results of his actions and his rhetoric. He either can see that too, and is an idiot, or he's exactly the destructive egomaniac his critics accuse him of being.