> Really it's Novell's CEO who is pulling SCO's strings these days and he > detests Microsoft.
You'd mean RAY Noorda here. Ray hasn't been with Novell for a very long time. Ironically, his "need" to fight Microsoft at all costs has driven Novell almost to the ground. After RAY, Eric Schmidt did a good job with turning Novell around. They aren't headed for bankrupcy anymore but in the end, a lot of the problem comes down to a marketing one. Microsoft will fight dirty, and Novell won't. Add to that that Novell is a tech company, and MS is a marketing company. I think that as far as "we only fight fair" competitors go, Opera's BORK edition is as good as it gets. It's REALLY funny, so people are likely to test out the product 'just to see it'. Caldera was given the green light (and the green) to start up because they were a MS competitor. Caldera was built by ex-Novell employees who were early on the Linux bandwagon. This actually hurt Novell too, I'd say. Novell only made a client for Caldera, and it wasn't open. Being that Caldera never became a Suse, RH or Debian, this market was never opened for them. There is a MARS project that allows Linux to emulate a Netware 3.x ?!? server (Who want's that?) and there were several people working on an open source NDS client for Linux a couple of years ago. I'm not sure what came of it. I still love Novell. 'course I still love my C=64 too. And it might be heresy to most, but I haven't seen 5 games on the PC platform that are as FUN as even an average C=64 game. They might have better graphics, or whatever, but they aren't as fun. Boy did that every go offtopic. Kev.
