[Sco-misc] Re: Groklaw way off base re Tarantella

From: Bill Campbell (bill_at_celestial.com)
Date: 02/27/04


Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:35:11 -0800

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004, J. L. Schilling wrote:
...
>I knew a number of the Tarantella staffers, and it's true
>that they were geographically and culturally isolated from
>most of old SCO, and certainly have nothing to do with
>new SCO. Tarantella should be judged on its own merits,
>without connection to whatever you might think of SCO.

Tarantella might be what's left of ``old sco'' as that was the part that
Doug Michels kept when Caldera purchased SCO.

Doug, co-founder of SCO, came out shortly after new SCO started all this
legal stuff, condemning their actions in no uncertain terms.

Bill

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