Alternatives that don?t suck?

[Steve Jardine]

I had been running Caldera stuff since before COL.. I was an alpha, beta, and final tester of what was called "Canberra". This was about '95 time frame. I had invested a lot of my time in testing out fine tuned pre-beta stuff on a lot of different types of systems providing timely, thorough feedback. When I saw 3.0, 3.1, 3.11 I was hopeful. 

*But* when SCO got *anywhere* near Caldera the words coming out of my mouth were strings of expletives. I had visions of my many years working with Xenix, and SCO Unix. Both were the *absolute worst* products I have ever been subjected to. Talk about stripped down, broken, ridiculous to install junk. Did someone say compile? Yeah - right.  

COL wasn't bad, but a bit too much help for my taste. Caldera went a flushing down the toilet sadly. It only took me forever to get back my investment in the IPO. When I had the stock, I felt dirty, ashamed, like I was floating in effluent.. When I sold it, I took a long hot shower and instantly felt a lot better - although it took about a year to get *that* taste out of my mouth! :-)

Steve

Sharing the benefits of "excessive profits" of publicly traded companies through bourgeois Capitalism (investment). 

"Null, void, invalid, iniquitous, unjust, damnable, reprobate, inane, and empty of meaning for all time." 
-- Pope Innocent X regarding the Treaty of Westphalia
 
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:22:13 -0700
Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:47:07PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > >
> > >I'd have stuck with eDesktop if Caldera hadn't turned into such toads.
> > 
> > I think you misspelled turds.
> 
> /me ROFL.
> 
> > "A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity
> > for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass; he is actually ill.
> > Worse, he is incurable." -- H.L. Mencken
> 
> Then I must surely be mortally ill.
> 
> Kurt
> -- 
> Actors will happen even in the best-regulated families.
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"Null, void, invalid, iniquitous, unjust, damnable, reprobate, inane, and empty of meaning for all time." 
-- Pope Innocent X regarding the Treaty of Westphalia