unitedlinux: it gets weirder

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:32:13 PDT 2004


On Thu, 30 May 2002, dep wrote:
> begin  Tim Wunder's  quote:
>
> | > no, in fact they went out of their way to say that a desktop
> | > distro *may not* carry the unitedlinux brand.
> |
> | Hmmm...OK, I obviously read it wrong. I just read it again and it
> | appears that you're right. But...Well...that just doesn't make any
> | sense...
>
> which is why we put up an editorial entitled "unitedyawnix" after
> going over it all a second time. we need to understand that we are
> mere users and therefore not only of no importance but in fact to be
> avoided. after all, it was companies, not users, who created linux in
> the first place, right?

What i'd really like to hear at this point is how the faithful from the
other threes' camps feel about this.

Caldera has been screwing its user base for a couple years, so this is
really just business as usual.  I thought that SuSE, Connectiva & Turbo
weren't this calous.  Also, i get the impression that Caldera is driving
this.  Anyone feel differently?


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