“The SCO Group, Inc… today announced plans to release a new
version of it’s former OpenLinux franchise in early Q4 2006, known
under the renowned Caldera label, branded version 10–or shorter
‘X’. These versions of OpenLinux Workstation and OpenLinux Server
feature several technical enhancements and capture the best tools
for Linux software development and deployment. In addition to these
technical updates, each release features localization in English,
German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Traditional and Chinese
Simplified languages. OpenLinux increases the overall availability
of applications and critical data by including backup server
facilities within its single, high-availability, fail-over
operating environment.“‘Caldera has always led the way in providing stable, reliable,
tested solutions for our key Linux server markets, and this release
of OpenLinux X follows that same course,’ said Darl McBride, CEO
and President, The SCO Group. ‘Regardless of whether you’re a
small-to-medium sized business, a corporate developer or a
reseller, Caldera OpenLinux X will deliver impressive, capable and
powerful choices…'”
Groklaw: Caldera OpenLinux X: Trial Balloon? Set up? Or a
Hoax?
“There is a supposed press release on a site owned by The SCO
Group, located in Germany, purporting to announce that SCO is
releasing a new version of OpenLinux, Caldera OpenLinux X, based on
the 2.5 Linux kernel. I consider it a fake announcement.“First, that kernel would be implicated in the litigation. SCO’s
lawyers would never allow an announcement like this, let alone such
a plan. Second, the GPL makes such a plan impossible to implement,
in the way the page claims. Third, the release isn’t grammatical
English. Fifth, it’s copyrighted by The OpenLinux Foundation, not
by SCO Group. Sixth, the tech makes no sense. For one thing, the
2.5 kernel is a development kernel and no one would base a distro
on anything but a stable kernel. And finally, this isn’t the method
SCO normally follows with releasing press releases. On the other
hand, it’s a web site owned by the SCO Group. So what might it be?
It could be a joke, I suppose, to see who believes it. It could
also be something worse…”