Hello,
I am with the LXNY and other free software clubs in NY and we are 100% against
certification, the sheer stupidity of evan's statement is all you really need
to know.
I personally had a really bad experience w/ Caldera after 3 years of preparing
to become a channel partner.
Below is a letter I sent out last week. I am presently trying to develop ultra
lite linix with the TRINUX group though were are all being worked to death at
our day jobs... deb is our fave so here I am :)
I hope you enjoy the irony of this particular situation:
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Hi, I just had to share this with you all.
Yesterday, two companies that I had been talking to and with whom I had
been sharing design and market information, both of whom promised a
partnership with CXN, my company...
...announced a deal to build a thinclient, remarkably similar to
ThinMan, my desktop offering. The wording in their press releases is almost
precisely lifted from an email that I sent to an executive of one of them.
The two companies are Caldera and Phillips, the deal is with AOL to
build the the AOL TV set top box. The email I sent was to Ransom Love at
Caldera
and my contact at Phillips (who stopped answering my calls) was Manjur Stanna.
The irony of the matter is that it is based on the Cyrix MediaGX and
National Semicondutors is selling Cyrix and Cyrix will orphan the chipset.
The two companies are Caldera and Phillips, the deal is with AOL to
build the the AOL TV set top box. The email I sent was to Ransom Love at
Caldera
and my contact at Phillips (who stopped answering my calls) was Manjur Stanna.
The irony of the matter is that it is based on the Cyrix MediaGX and
National Semicondutors is selling Cyrix and Cyrix will orphan the chipset.
Other news: CXN is planning an operations consultancy with its present
super contractor. Mucho mongers and others have expressed interest, you know
who you
are :)
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John van Vlaanderen
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# CXN, Inc. Contact: #
# [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.thinman.com #
# 1 917 309 7379 (cell, voice mail) #
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