Caldera List

[sjardine@acm.org]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 20:41:19 -0500
"Kurt Wall" <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:

> Feigning erudition, sjardine at acm.org wrote:
> % Welp, I finally pulled the plug on the Caldera Users List. Been a subscriber
> % for 8 years..  The SCO MBA's (appropriately said earlier) really are clueless.
> % They are trying to get the big payoff so they can retire.
> 
> So, what's the reaction on the Caldera list to this latest piece
> of brilliance?
> 

  Reaction? Heck the list has been like a piece of comfortably numb (is there
anybody out there? Is there anyone at home?) for a year. The reaction I am sure
will be nada (he he)..

> % I can say that I have been retiring Caldera driven systems for about a year 
> % now. I rather like SUSE..
> 
> I've been liking Slackware a good deal, played with LFS a bit. Haven't
> had the courage to try SuSE in a long time. Mandrake's out, as is Red
> Hat and other RPM-based distributions. Haven't tried the Debian family,
> yet.
>

 SUSE is great. I like it better than RedHat. Haven't used Slackware in *many*
years.. 

> % Man has Caldera taken a dive. Hopefully I can get less of a loss on the IPO
> % stock that I have now.. I am planning my exit strategy before they go bankrupt..
> 
> I'm just amazed, man. It's just a darn shame.
>

 Shame? More like sham. I have never been involved in such a project as closely
as the Open Linux debacle and seen such "turn your back on your bread and butter"
attitude. But, was destined to have happened. I mean business is business. I will
vote with my wallet - and with the customers that I recommend Linux to.

 Guess I was duped from the start of the IPO by the RedHat rise to fruition.. 
Shame on me..

Steve