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Yup. Caldera started as a legit Linux distro circa 1994-5, but burned through their funds too quickly. As a pivot they bought out Digital Research including th
by cstross 10y ago
Yup.
Caldera started as a legit Linux distro circa 1994-5, but burned through their funds too quickly. As a pivot they bought out Digital Research including their anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft (for blocking Win95 from running atop DR-DOS). They won big, and the rest is history -- they used a chunk of the funds to buy what they thought was SCO's IP rights, then sued IBM (because that never ends badly, right?).
- vram22 10y agoHow did it actually end? or has it even ended? (I know that cases sometimes go on for years, and I vaguely remember reading something about it lately.) I tracked what was happening for a while, at the time - just out of interest - mainly via Pamela Jones' groklaw site, but don't think I read about the end.
- digi_owl 10y agoLast i read the zombie was still stumbling about...