Wesley Parish

Dear Darl McBride, I have been reading various comments by you recently about how you think the Open Source Community should bow the head and bend the knee to your gentle efforts at making a workable "business model." The problem I personally have with that is that I actually proposed a workable business model for SCO's previous incarnation, Caldera, to stay an Open Source company even while it digested the remains of the original Santa Cruz Operation and came to terms with the relicts of AT&T's proprietary code (osOpinion: SCO into Caldera Without Getting SCalded). Unfortunately osOpinion is off-line now, so I can't point you to that particular article, but my thesis then was that Caldera could do a lot worse than seek to develop the current SCO OpenServer channels - for which it bought out most of the original SCO - into an Open Source Community. At the time I had... (more)

An Open-Source Challenge to Messrs. Gates & Ballmer

Messrs William H. Gates III & Steven Ballmer Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond Washington, USA Dear Sirs I see you have been active again in making interesting - and to some degree highly amusing - statements about Free/Libre Open Source Software and the many and varied people who make up its community. I in particular would like to thank Mr Ballmer for your entertaining expose of Linux's deepest, darkest secret - that it can seriously worry the senior executive of a convicted predatory monopoly, without that ever having been the intention of its principal software de... (more)