<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Not sure what you mean by “early
supporters”. I made my living once upon a time supporting hundreds of
sites running SCO Unix so in that sense I was an “early supporter”.
SCO Unix was good product for its niche and I rather enjoyed working on it. It
isn’t even that surprising they tried to go after Linux – In the PC
realm they were king when it came to *nix for a while and Linux while it has
been ported to many platforms and devices is primarily used in the same area
that SCO formerly competed in. It is sad however, that they can’t see
that they’ve lost and keep pretending that somehow they’ll prevail
some day.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">The comments about being miserable in your
work reminded me of my former life in Hospitality Accounting. I was making
good money by the time I became a Financial Controller and was living on site
in a Caribbean hotel on a beautiful beach
(meaning my money was tax free) but after 11 years of hotels I was fairly burnt
out and finally quit. That 11 years seemed like forever to me. After I went
into IT full time the first 11 years seemed to go by in a blur – enjoying
your job really is important to your state of mind.</span></font></p>
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</span></font></div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>The reason I used the name Caldera/SCO on that reference was to differentiate between the Santa Cruz Organization and their product, and Caldera-renamed-SCO after Caldera bought out SCO's Unix products. I don't think the suit had much to do with Linux's competition with the SCO products. I think the Dr. DOS win gave them a taste for profits through litigation, and they decided making potential billions of dollars suing and collecting unearned per-processor royalties seemed more attractive than getting the stuffings kicked out of them by Red Hat in the marketplace.<br>
<br>As for jobs, yeah. I've stuck around miserable work from time to time, and in every case when I left the job thought "What in the hell was I thinking?". There are good reasons to be careful about choosing when to leave a job, but there's no advantage to hanging on to a miserable job just because it's a job. I have the same attitude toward my freelance work. Problem customers don't stay a problem for me for long.<br>
<br>Larry<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>"I see design standards that don't tell you how to come up with a good design (only how to write it down), employee evaluation standards that don't help you build meaningful long-term relationships with staff, testing standards that don't tell you how to invent a test that is worth running."<br>
<br> Tom DeMarco<br> Slack<br>