“Caldera has pledged that developers and education users will
get access to UnitedLinux binaries, after the four member distros
have pooled their resources. But as the story unravels, it looks
like the per-seat pricing looks like a stayer, at least for
Caldera.“‘The technology itself must be in people’s hands,’ Caldera’s VP
of corporate development Bennoy Tanning told us, when we asked
about binary availability yesterday…“On the other hand, the distros will compete on the desktop,
where OpenLinux-shy Mandrake is dominant, so things could get
really confusing really quickly. In OpenLinux each vendor speaks
for himself, and SuSE was quick to distance itself from Caldera’s
model of per-seat licensing when it spoke to LinuxToday on
Monday…”
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