OT: Novel wins Unix copyrights!

[Paul McNary]

Paul McNary wrote:
> Fairlight wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> mark->
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> Bela was cool?
> 
> Did something happen, I thought Bela is still cool!
> 
> pmcnary
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