Ausschnitt aus einer WEB-Seite .... CALDERA ANNOUNCES OPEN SOURCE CODE MODEL FOR DOS DR DOS + the Internet = Caldera OpenDOS PROVO, Utah Sept. 10, 1996 Caldera® Inc. today announced that it will op enly distribute the source code for DOS via the Internet as part of the company' s plans to encourage continued development of DOS technologies and applications, further leveling the playing field for software developers worldwide. This effort, targeted to benefit both individual developers and industry partners, follow s Caldera's commitment to embrace and fund an open software environment. Caldera also announced plans for internal development and marketing of DOS, including a new product called Caldera OpenDOS . "DOS continues to meet the technical and financial requirements of a large porti on of the computing industry, especially in the areas of network computing devic es, specialized game devices and embedded systems," said Bryan Sparks, President and CEO of Caldera, Inc. "Publishing source code for DOS will benefit a large n umber of independent and in-house developers creating customized solutions based on DOS." Caldera plans to openly distribute the source code for all of the DOS technologi es it acquired from Novell®, Inc. on July 23, including CP/M, DR DOS, PalmDOS, Multi-User DOS and Novell DOS 7. Pending an evaluation and organization of the technologies, the source code will be made available from Caldera's website during Q1 1997. Caldera learned from its early inves tment in Linux technologies that the commercial market is now ready to embrace open technology standards for operating systems.