Love on board

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:33 pm, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> >On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:48:30 -0500 Chris Kassopulo <ckasso at sprynet.com> 
wrote:
> >>Former Caldera CEO Ransom Love joins Progeny board
> >>
> >>http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/11/0333248
> >
> >I haven't kept track of Progeny, but after visiting their website, one
> > thing is apparent:
> >
> >In spite of the fact that Ian Murdock runs the show, the only reference on
> > their home page to GNU-bleeding-linux is in a link to a news article! 
> > There is hope.
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but isn't this former ceo the one who lead Caldera
> to it's present state of affairs?

Yes and no.

Ransom Love was a strong advocate of Linux in business, Linux standards, 
binary compatibility (is this the correct term?) between Unix and Linux, and 
the creation of United Linux.  It is my understanding that Caldera 
contributed to many open source projects, including RPM.

So yes, he had a hand in many of today's circumstances; however, I choose to 
disassociate today's SCO from Ransom Love's Caldera that created eDesktop 
2.4. (Ahh, the memories of my early newbiness.)

In an interview, Mr. Love declined to comment on the merits SCO's lawsuit; but 
he made it clear that he would have handled the entire situation differently.  
>From an outsider's view (outside of Caldera), I think his statement is 
consistent with his past actions.

Andrew Gould