To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:11:11 -0800
Subject: Re: A little history
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From: Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

What's to like?  You did not buy "Linux" or DR DOS from Caldera. 
Linux is free for the downloading from many sites on the WWW. 
They are in business to build a "Distribution" of Linux for their 
Commercial Customers and that means they take all of the 
"Free GnuLinux" software out in the web and test it in combination 
with various combinations of other modules and pick the ones they 
think are the most stable to put in the "Distribution Package".  
Anything they use from the Gnu Linux libraries that they modify 
must be put into the GPL Pool.  Caldera has been known for years 
as one of the most stable distributions while Red Hat is known for 
it's 'cutting edge' distribution.  They sell a lot of custom
distributions 
for use on commercial business site servers and workstations.
Individual Linux sales to PC users is problably less than 5 percent 
of their business.  They also make money from Lineo for the 
customized DOS system installations that are sold to businesses 
and that's why we can get a free personal use copy of DR DOS from 
Lineo.  

BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS' "Chocolate is a vitamin"

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:30:36 -0500 fernande AT internet1 DOT net writes:
> Okay, I visited both SCO and Caldera.
> 
> It seems SCO sold two of there divisions to Caldera.  I guess that
> leaves SCO with only Tarantula??  SCO without Unix???  I did see 
> that
> SCO and Caldera are both on the Nasdaq..... I didn't know Caldera 
> was
> that succesful!  
> 
> I am not sure if I like this or not....
> 
> Chad Fernandez
> Michigan, USA
> 
> fernande AT internet1 DOT net wrote:
> > 
> > Chris,
> > 
> > Are you sure about this??
> > 
> > Unixware is what SCO bought from Novell.  A year ago, when I 
> bought my
> > media pack of SCO Openserver 5.05, Unixware was what SCO was 
> migrating
> > to.  Xenix had become, after many versions changes, Openserver.
> > 
> > I heard about a deal with Caldera, but I thought SCO basically 
> bought
> > part of Caldera, and SCO was going to compe out with with a 
> version of
> > Linux.  SCO had already been selling support for Open Linux.
> > 
> > I guess I am going to have to dig around in press releases.
> > 
> > Chad Fernandez
> > Michigan, USA

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