SCO Unix Intellectual Property Pedigree Chart

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

Caldera also employed a couple big linux developers.  I can't recall any names right now, but they were definately there.  There was some kernel work done by caldera employee's and obviously other things.

-miah

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 09:58:17AM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> On Thursday 01 May 2003 09:01 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > Many of us have seen flow charts of Unix history. SCO has placed one of
> > these charts on their website.
> > http://www.sco.com/scosource/unixtree/unixhistory01.html
> >
> > It seems that they have tagged the green bar as SCO LInux Pedigree.
> > It would seem that one looking at this chart would infer that SCO had
> > some stake in the development of Linux. While Caldera has been around
> > for a while as a Linux distro, I am unaware that they contributed
> > anything significant back to Linux (or FSF and other Open Source
> > software).
> 
> To my knowledge, Caldera tried to create a very Windows-like, easy to install, 
> easy to use Linux experience.  Except, like with Red Hat's and SuSE's first 
> few attempts to do the same, the apps failed horribly, because the UI was not 
> intuitive, the saved data would get out of sync with the config files, and 
> they would crash.
> 
> I don't know if any of this ended up in other distributions, but I sincerely 
> hope not.
> 
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