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...has a slightly different business model. It adds proprietary elements to Linux, including a user-friendly desktop, and sells the package on CD-ROM. Caldera doesn't publish the source code for the proprietary elements, some of which it licenses from other vendors. Standing behind Caldera is Ray Noorda, who retired as chairman of Novell Inc. in 1994. Canopy Group, a venture capital firm Mr. Noorda founded in 1995, is Caldera's sole investor, and Caldera was started by former Novell employees who worked under Mr. Noorda. Indeed, Mr. Noorda's embrace of Linux is an extension of his well-do...

..., I was (and still am somewhat) of a major skeptic of Novell. Novell new it had to get off of its DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) OS approach, and seriously considered Linux. But instead of going Linux 10 years earlier than they did, they bought UNIX(R) from AT&T USL. That's when Ray Noorda, basically the man who made Novell who they are, broken off and founded Caldera. Novell never worked much with Caldera, and withheld pretty much all their core technologies. Ironic because had Novell not, they would be in a far stronger position on Linux than they are today. We might not even be...