unitedlinux: it gets weirder

[Lee]

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

Believe that they have decided to follow the M$ model - come up with a
single operating system (Win 95) and spend the rest of your time hanging
bells and whistles on it and call them new releases. Course each new
bell and whistle can bring the whole thing down or open it up to hack
attacks. But, then you can fix those and call it Win 98, ME, 2000 or XP. 
only now we'll call those release, still in the retail market, SuSe,
Caldera, et al. Never thought I'd say this but," Thank God for the
French and Mandrake and even a few Hail Mary's for the folks at
Redmond.> --
>.
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