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Linux and Main: When Good Dogs Go Bad

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 20, 2003

“I’ve been struggling to come up with a motivation for SCO’s
bizarre behavior for a little while now. This week’s announcement
that SCO was ‘suspending’ its Linux distribution (does anyone,
anywhere, think for a microsecond that it will ever be back?) and
its threats against other Linux distributors and users is
breathtaking in its sheer cheek.

“It also makes no sense. As a matter of history, Caldera was
doing what it accuses everyone else of doing, while its chief
owner, Novell’s Ray Noorda, also owned a little something called
UnixWare. Caldera was distributing its products under the
GPL…

“Who stands to benefit…?”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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