Looking Back at My History with SCO | Linux Today

Looking Back at My History with SCO

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 25, 2007

[ Thanks to Roger
Moore
for this link. ]

“With SCO going into Chapter 11 bankruptcy and likely to drop
into Chapter 7, and given some of the mail and posts I’ve been
getting, I agree that it is time to look back a bit at my
experience with SCO. Like Dan Lyons, I was deceived. But unlike
him, it wasn’t just SCO; there were the Linux loyalists who pushed
me onto SCO’s side as well. Now this is a long piece, probably one
of the longest I’ve ever written, and even so
it leaves stuff out, so bear with me and I’ll try to keep it
interesting.

“We all have personality quirks, things that just tick us off
and impact the way we see the world and make certain decisions as a
result. These things create the foundation for our personalities
and it used to be common practice to use this information to
profile competing executives and more accurately guess their future
moves…”

Complete
Story

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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