OT: Novel wins Unix copyrights!

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Only Bill Campbell would say something like:
> When Caldera bought SCO, I had high hopes that they would take things in the
> right direction under Ransom Love, and keep the many good folks from Santa
> Cruz such as Bela Lubkin, Dion Johnson, et al, getting rid of the clueless
> types (names omitted to protect the guilty :-).  Unfortunately they kept
> the wrong ones, and when Darl McBride came in, turning SCO into a
> litigation company, alia jacta est.

Bela was cool...and pretty much a genius.  Very generous guy.  Forgiving,
too.  :)

And SCO -did- go in the direction of ransom love.  They loved the idea of
ransoming linux users for money.  Look where it got them.  :)

You have to wonder really where they went wrong, though, in all
seriousness.  Because Red Hat and Novell pretty much went for-fee with
their enterprise solutions.  Sure, there are Fedora and OpenSuSE, but
largely the companies took their primary distributions commercial.  So I
have to wonder why they don't face the same backlash.  Well, Red Hat did at
first.  Still, not to the same degree that people detest SCO.

Never really liked Caldera.  Not sure what you ever saw in that distro,
Bill.  I'm guessing there was something, but I never "got" it.

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