Sounds like the original SCO company was good, or at least OK. It wasn't until Caldera took over that things went down hill.
Correct. Original SCO was a great company with great products. Many call it the first UNIX vendor.
Caldera was great too under Ransom Love who founded it. It was not until Darl took over that it became the infamous evil company that it will always be remembered as.
If I recall previous discussions, you're completely fine with server side Java things, it's client side that are horrible.
Considering this is an admin tool, is this good or bad that it requires Java?
Admin Tool = Client Side
So for me, I think it's a bit of crap there. As an admin tool I'd find it one step better than if it was for "generic" users. But in this role, it is still for an end user, just a power user (me.) And I think that any use of client side Java is rather bad. Not the end of the world, but not good. This isn't a new utility, so we can excuse the choice more than we could with a new one. But I'm certainly not planning to deploy it. There has to be better options.
I feel exactly the same way. Was mainly wondering if you did too - and well, you do 😉
Do you think this inclusion is worth a legal battle should one ensue?
Hard to say, it's a marketing ploy. How much it convinces people based on the Cult of ZFS thing, is unknown. ZFS has a quite religious following, no real technical reason to exist on Linux, so Canonical's play here is to attract that crowd. Whether it is worth it or not, hard to say.
Here's what it looks like now. Ignore the eth dialog box, it was stuck there for some reason. The second image is the wizard you run through. It's really easy to set up.
The cable company I worked for in FL used XO. I wonder how this will affect them?
Well, they will now use Verizon 🙂
Ha ya, I wonder about rates. I remember reading some crazy prices and people weren't happy with XO's service (but then again I think that's every provider).
