News Comment This is a comment on news story: SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing It's a reply to comment: SCO is not a dirty word by: CMonster3  Frist off -- die sco die! That said, SCO (formerly Caldera Systems) seemed to be a decent company, that is until acquired by Caldera -- the good folks at Caldera Systems changed their name to SCO, I believe, for the express purpose of litigation. Sound impossisble? Does anyone remember the history of DRDOS? Long ago, in a galaxy far away, Caldera Systems acquired the rights to Digital Research DOS, a better-than MSDOS disk operating system --unfortunately DRDOS never caught on, in part due to the Microsoft monopoly -- Caldera started litigation with Microsoft Meanwhile Cladera marketed its own Linux -- anyone remember Caldera Openlinux? (This Linux user started with Caldera Openlinux 1.3, kernel 1.2 I believe) By the time Caldera Openlinux reached version 2.3 they had already integrated the KDE desktop, and it came standard with things like Star Office, realplayer, flash, adobe reader -- AND Wine preconfigured (which "almost" could run *.exe files - here was a boxed version that did most of what I needed). BUT after some years of litigation, Microsoft finally settled with Caldera over DRDOS - Caldera made millions $$ off the deal (taste of blood) ...and strangely enough. practically overnight, Caldera gave up marketing its boxed desktop Linux, deciding rather to concentrate on the corporate market... (had those MS millions come with hidden strings?) Next up as you all know, came the present situation and SCO became known as a dirty word -- was MS now calling in the rest of those strings? MS money always seems to come at a price - whatever happened to Corel's Linux products anyway -- I mean after Microsoft invested some (how much was it?) $180 million?
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