Investors look to Amazon, Caldera, Jun 01, 2001

 Caldera will report its first quarterly results after its acquisition of The Santa Cruz Operation. Analysts expect the maker of Linux software to post a loss of 23 cents per share in its second quarter

This week, Terra Soft Solutions Inc. rolled out Version 2.0 of Yellow Dog Linux, a Linux distribution designed to run atop Power Mac hardware. According to the company, YDL extends Unix's Mac reach to older systems that don't support Apple's new OS and attracts Linux aficionados to the latest Mac hardware.

Excerpts from a Chicago Sun-Times interview with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft

Q: Do you view Linux and the open-source movement as a threat to Microsoft?

A: Yeah. It's good competition. It will force us to be innovative. It will force us to justify the prices and value that we deliver. And that's only healthy. The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds open-source work. Government funding should be for work that is available to everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies. The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.

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