unitedlinux: it gets weirder

[Net Llama!]

Kurt, I know how it feels to watch a company that you invested alot of 
emotion into self-destruct.  Unfortunately, I know it all too well.  At 
least you were able to get out before the death spiral started.

Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002 13:12:36 -0400
> dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>turns out, it's another way to get rich off of linux without having 
>>any actual users. the desktop crowd was told to go pound sand, in 
>>about that many words.
> 
> 
> Ya know, if you always do what you've always done, you're always going
> to get what you've always gotten. What blows my mind is that smarter people
> than Ransom Love actually buy this tired ghost of a marketing scheme, "Linux
> for business." They couldn't make it work for OpenLinux, haven't yet made
> it work for OpenUnix, and so they think it will work for Turdera^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
> UnitedLinux?
> 
> Just in case no one's figured it out, I'm just pissed. Until this morning,
> I missed Caldera; I just realized that what I *really* missed was Caldera's
> potential and, with just a couple of exceptions, the people with whom I
> worked at Caldera. The company has a death wish, and, not content with their
> own self-destruction, have persuaded three other Linux companies to jump off
> the cliff with them.
> 
> Kurt


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