[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Caldera’s brand of Linux began as a skunkworks project within
Novell. The project was led by Bryan Sparks and was codenamed
‘Expose’, and later ‘Corsair’. When Ray Noorda, the founder of
Novell, left the company, the skunkworks project was abandoned,
presumably because Linux wasn’t seen as an essential part of
Novell’s future business. Caldera was floated off during October
1994 to continue the Linux project, financed by Noorda and led by
Sparks.“Sparks’ role as chief executive of Caldera set a precedent.
Each of SCO/Caldera’s subsequent chief executives and many of
SCO/Caldera’s executives, had been ex-employees of Novell,
including Darl McBride, the chief executive and prime instigator of
SCO’s ‘Intellectual Property’ siege on the computing
industry…”