Don't forget, he founded UnitedLinux, which seems a bit moribund at the moment but was mentioned by both Novell and SuSE management during their recent marriage announcements. Stories like this one about Novell's SuSE purchase focused on SuSE's agreements with SCO through mutual UnitedLinux membership as a potential liability. But this NewsForge reporter was on the same conference call as all the other reporters, and distinctly heard both Novell's Messman and SuSE's Seibt talk glowingly about their UnitedLinux partners Conectiva and TurboLinux — and distinctly not mention SCO as part of UnitedLinux. Now a little "insider" historical tidbit for those of you who not only remember when UnitedLinux was formed but troubled to read this far today: Ransom Love wanted Debian to be part of UnitedLinux. Yes. Really. He knew Debian was a force in the Linux Community.