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Why does SCO think it can win its Linux battles with IBM? SCO CEO Darl McBride lays out the company's position in an exclusive interview with eWEEK.Com Linux and Open Source editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

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Saw over at DistroWatch that Linux Weekly News has published an interview with the recently appointed CEO of Xandros Corporation, Andreas Typaldos

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In 1994, Caldera Inc. was formed by Bryan Sparks and Ransom Love with the financial backing of Novell Inc. founder Ray Noorda. The company was one of the first backers of commercial Linux. Since that time, Caldera's successor company, The SCO Group Inc., has gained notoriety for its legal actions against Linux vendors and end users over what it says is proprietary Unix code. When he left Caldera in mid-2001, industry wags said Love would take the helm of the UnitedLinux consortium; but instead, he left the Linux business. Today, Love is writing a book about the early days of Linux commercialization and the open-source way of approaching problems.

Steven Vaughan-Nichols, editor of eWEEK.com's Linux & Open Source Center , spoke to Love in an exclusive interview. Love, who was Caldera CEO during its acquisition of SCO and the contested Unix source code, expressed displeasure over the current developments from his former company.

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NewsForge has posted an interview with Alex de Landgraaf
Morphix is an Open Source/Free Linux distribution, based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix. Morphix is a modular distribution with live-CD support that can be tested without the need to install. It is still experimental, but it is growing in popularity. Users can choose among Morphix ISO images such as an XFCE4-based one for low-end systems, Gnome 2.2 or KDE 3.1 for higher-end desktops, and a game ISO for gaming enthusiasts.
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Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, this week responded to a range of allegations made by The SCO Group at its SCO Forum 2003 conference in Las Vegas. In a hard-hitting interview with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli, Torvalds disputed what SCO presented this week as evidence of illegal Unix System V code in Linux.

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An Ark Linux contributor has interviewed the core developers and contributors. This interview is very basic and reveals information about how they got involved in Linux and Ark Linux, what they currently do and what they'd like to see happen with Ark Linux.

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