LJI article: "My Visit to SCO"

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Bill Campbell:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:28:39PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >Quoth Bill Campbell:
> ...
> >> Here's another article that relates and raises issues that SCO
> >> probably doesn't want to think about:
> >> 	http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030619.html
> >
> >I don't believe it is a matter of not wanting to think about it,
> >although I'm sure SCO wouldn't care to do so. Rather, I believe
> >that SCO are, among other things, collectively profoundly ignorant
> >of their own history, which, as Cringely suggests, is about to
> >repeat itself:
> 
> I know many folks who have worked for SCO over the years having met Doug
> Michels first in 1984 or 1985 in Fort Worth when I was on the board of
> directors of TCBUG (Tandy Computer Business Users Group), and a SCO
> Reseller since 1987 or so.  There are still some good people on the
> technical side at SCO, mostly in Santa Cruz, who remember what's gone on,
> but management doesn't seem to be listening to them.  I don't know many
> (any) of the original Caldera Linux folks who're still with the company,
> the best of the German development team having gone over to SuSE.

Some of the Caldera Linux folks are still there, but most are not.
The technical people from Santa Cruz with whom I worked before I left
knew the history. I was most definitely speaking of the current crop
of managers - they could care less about UNIX history, technology, 
values, or ethos. All they can see are dollar signs and all they can
understand are balance sheets. Litigousness is simply another tool
in the modern business toolbox. Blech.

> Doug Michels, co-founder of SCO, has stated publically that he's totally
> against what SCO is doing now.

Good for him.

Kurt
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