Fw: [KOMPANY-ANNOUNCE] SCO/Caldera support

[el lodger]

Here's a company that won't support SCO.

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Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 14:25:39 -0800
From: Shawn Gordon <shawn at thekompany.com>
To: kapital at thekompany.com, qg at thekompany.com, rekall at thekompany.com,
announce at thekompany.com
Subject: [KOMPANY-ANNOUNCE] SCO/Caldera support


My first real try at Linux was Caldera 1.2, and i really liked it. 
Later 
Caldera raised the bar with their Lizard installer, it was a major leap 
forward in Linux ease of use.  Then Caldera went public, and started
going 
a bit loopy with various acquisitions, in particular the acquisition of 
SCO, which is now the name of the company.  A few days ago SCO filed a
$1 
BILLION dollar lawsuit against IBM, the basis for which is essentially
this:

Linux could not have made so much progress so quickly unless IBM had
used 
their knowledge of Unix through their licensed AIX, to do it.  You can
read 
a short summary story at 
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/03/07/1728239.shtml?tid=3

Now as some have opined, it would appear a ploy on SCO's part to get IBM
to 
just purchase them since their market cap is only $22 Million, far less 
than their lawsuit.  In any case, we, like many, find this behavior 
despicable on SCO's part and will not support them in any way any 
more.  It's not like SCO/Caldera was a player any more on the desktop, 
their last release was about 18 months ago in this market.


Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
theKompany.com
www.thekompany.com
949-713-3276


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