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[Kurt Wall]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 23:53:39 +0000
Burns MacDonald <burns at burnsmacdonald.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 30 May 2002 16:19, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
> > As he put it "i hope that the engineering is far better than the contents
> > of this paper".
> 
> Criptography... shit!
> 
> The format and layout looks suspiciously like a Caldera white papaer - Kurt, 
> do you agree?

Yes, quite. The Web site is definitely Caldera's. The registration for
unitedlinux.com makes it pretty clear that this is primarily the latest
Caldera-inspired abortion:

$ whois unitedlinux.com
[noise deleted]
Registrant:
   unitedlinux.com
   PO BOX 711132
   SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84171-1132
   US

   Domain Name: UNITEDLINUX.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      unitedlinux.com
      KYLE KNOWLES
      PO BOX 711132
      SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84171-1132
      US
      801.918.3223
      kyle at dogberry.net

   Domain created on 02-Mar-2001
   Domain expires on 02-Mar-2003
   Last updated on 24-May-2002

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS.SUSE.DE                   
   NS.SUSE.CZ                   
   NS.CALDERASYSTEMS.COM        216.250.130.1
   NS2.CALDERASYSTEMS.COM       216.250.130.5

> Their licensing stance sounds rather ominous and smacks of Ransom Love (the 
> friend of Open Source - not!).

Yes, it does indeed.

Kurt
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