This is a clip from my second SCO follies performance -- where I appear in order to "explain" to the beknighted SCO employees how Caldera's "open source sales model" works. Created at a time when open source companies were spending (and losing) money hand over fist, the Caldera employee is in awe at SCO's ability to "lose more money in a single quarter than we could lose all year".
The entire Follies video ("Fiddler on the 425 Roof") is both hilarious and deeply poignant. It catalogs the year-long slow death of the once great and relevant Santa Cruz Operation (who was the trailblazer in providing the kind of Unix operating system services on the Intel platform that everyone takes for granted on Linux today) as it was in the process of being purchased by Caldera, the "close but no cigar" number two US Linux company after Red Hat.
Even sadder of course is how Caldera first ran SCO even further into the ground, and then turned into the evil SCO Group and began its ultimately futile lawsuits against everyone in the industry. The "At Caldera" clip starts at five minutes into this clip (#4) below. (The scene in Clip #2 with Doug Michels, SCO CEO -- played by himself -- contemplating suicide in an "Apocalypse Now" homage -- until the two Mormon missionaries come and buy his company -- is one of the classics of satire).
