In April 1999, Caldera Thin Clients released the no longer needed sources to GEM and ViewMAX under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

[11][12][clarification needed] More importantly the product was unique, and this came from the fact that Lineo's view on the Linux embedded market was different from other vendors.

Through the six companies Lineo acquired, they were able to extend the same Linux technology across multiple chip architectures and add real-time capabilities.

[19][20][21] After some assets were auctioned off in April 2002, by July 2002 the company had reformed as Embedix, Inc.[22] under the lead of Matthew R. Harris, formerly a Summit Law attorney for Caldera, Inc.

[23][24][25] The remaining Digital Research assets fell back to the investor Canopy Group, and parts of the DR-DOS sources were acquired by DeviceLogics in 2002.