In an interview with Computerworld , SCO co-founder and CEO Doug Michels discussed the deal with Caldera and SCO's future. No, this is the right deal at the right time, I think. This is the deal that's the best answer for our customers, our employees, our shareholders and the industry as a whole . . .
People are open-minded, they're looking at choices, they're excited about open source.
And I see an opportunity here to really affect the landscape, to have a significant impact on the future of the industry. Sure, we could have played the cards lots of ways. You've been critical of Linux in the past, describing it as a much less mature product than SCO's UnixWare operating system. Linux is the epitome of the open-systems revolution that has been part of my life for the last 20 years. I mean, Linux is what open systems is all about.