Caldera OpenUnix 8

[W. Wayne Liauh]

Caldera was one of the first companies (when it was a division of Novell) 
that ever recognized the potential of Linux--even before Red Hat; it has also 
made numerous contributions to the development of Linux kenel.  Actually, the 
Caldera division of Novell was trying to recruit Linus Torvolds before Linus 
even began to write his MS thesis at University of Helsinki.  If you read 
KDE's acknowedgement pages, you will find out that many developers at Caldera 
also make a lot of contributions.  Personally, I believe criticisms about 
Caldera without discussing the underlying facts may not be very fair.

OTOH, since Caldera follows the letters of GNU, I don't see anything wrong 
with what it is doing.  In fact, I commend Caldera for promoting an 
alternative, for-profit, business model for the open source community.  
Things need to be changed somewhat.  At the present time, to the best of my 
knowledge, no Linux company is going to get much VC.  Google is an exception, 
but Google is a different story.

If someone from our isles puts together a set of scripts on top of 
theopen-source distributions which make a Linux desktop much more acceptable 
to the business community (say, law offices, accountants, dentists/doctors' 
offices, etc.), and charges as much as the buyer is willing to pay, I am sure 
he or she will receive our full blessings.  Why should we treat Caldera 
differently?



On Saturday 18 August 2001 11:33 am, you wrote:
> Warren,
>
> I understand that, however you have to understand that installing a GNU
> toolkit does not make the system GNU, much less "free" in any sense of the
> word.  You could install the GNU toolkit on an Irix, AIX, SunOS or Solaris
> box; this is also nothing new.
>
> As far as Caldera's intentions go...  Slapping the buzzword "Open" on a
> proprietary Unix system with emulation for Linux binaries is probably just
> a way for Ransom Love to escape from the "clutches" of the Free software
> that Caldera first built with, and then unsuccesfully tried to escape from.
>
> Aloha,
> Charles
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:01:50PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> > Read the review.  It includes a full GNU toolkit for full SCO and Linux
> > environments.
> > Essentially, it is a Linux distribution without the Linux kernel + SCO
> > proprietary packages.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <epsas at inflicted.net>
> > To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 11:07 AM
> > Subject: [luau] Re: Caldera OpenUnix 8
> >
> > > Warren,
> > >
> > > SCO is NOT GNU software
> >
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