unitedlinux: it gets weirder

Tim Wunder tim
Mon May 17 11:32:14 PDT 2004


On 5/30/2002 3:21 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 

Nope. Not me.
But, heck, I'm just a linux user. What do I know?




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