To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 01:19:13 -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

Chad, 

I guess I was just confused by your comments about Caldera and SCO being
on Nasdaq.   Neither company selling parts of the corporate body should
affect our DOS or Linux software.  

Actually Caldera and Lineo are currently  dropping the ball by almost
completely stopping new development on DR DOS.  It really is (was)  a
very serious matter for SCO to sell off their stuff to Caldera.  They are
greatly in need of CASH to stay competitive in the software world and
they get a $18MilUS from a Caldera cohort and retain most rights to their
software including (currently) about $250MILUS per year for the profits
Caldera realizes from sales of the server stuff. They will also be a
large stockholder group in Caldera stock, and several of their executives
will be top executives in the new Caldera subsiduaries.
 
Combining with SCO helps Caldera to do what they always wanted in
building a more stable and robust distribution of Linux Servers Software
and they will also be able to make it more Unix aware (or compatible if
you wish).  Almost all of the big server software companies are swinging
into the Linux camp, even Big Blue, who are porting Linux over to work on
all of their hardware, from the laptops to the 390's,  even though they
already have their own version of Unix in AIX, which is supposed to be a
very stable platform.
 
I think we will all benefit from this merger (sale).  

Back to an earlier thought -- "One license agreement for Netinc's NetMenu
product says:

' What will happen if you violate this agreement:  You will be in very
big trouble!' "

Have a nice day, 

BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS "Chocolate is a vitamin"

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:09:29 -0500 fernande AT internet1 DOT net writes:
> Okay, but what is your point?  I never claimed to own ALL of DRDOS or
> Open Linux.  I don't want to sell it, or change it.  I just stated 
> that
> I wasn't sure if I liked Caldera buying 2 divisions of SCO.
> 
> When most people talk about buying software, they mean the package, 
> not
> the rights to buy/sell/modify the code to all copies.
> 
> Chad Fernandez
> Michigan, USA
> 
> Robert W Moss wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry chad, It's all a matter of semantics.
> > When you bought the DRDOS package from Caldera you only bought the 
> rights
> > to install and use 'their' software on one personal computer, and 
> they
> > reserve the rights to the software.

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