“ we have been open-source long before it was fashionable.”

That is a weird, weird claim for a firm that was founded off the back of a project that started in 2005.

It’s, what, over five years after the VA Linux IPO, two years after Microsoft arguably used Caldera as a weapon in a proxy war against IBM, seven years after one of the most famous software products of all time, Netscape Navigator, went open source.

Just a strange, facially implausible bit of appeal to tradition.