Editing Lineo (section)

== Decline ==
In October 2001, Lineo refreshed and expanded a free license for the redistribution and modification of original Digital Research binaries and sources related to [[CP/M]] and [[MP/M]] through "The Unofficial CP/M Web site"<ref name="Sparks_2001_CP/M"/><ref name="Chaudry_2001_CP/M"/><ref name="Gasperson_2001_Collection"/><ref name="Swaine_2004_CP/M"/> a license originally issued by Caldera in 1997.<ref name="Olmstead_1997_1"/><ref name="Olmstead_1997_2"/><ref name="Caldera_1997_CP/M"/>

After some assets were auctioned off in April 2002, by July 2002 the company had reformed as [[Embedix (company)|Embedix]], Inc.<ref name="Correia_2002"/> under the lead of Matthew R. Harris, formerly a Summit Law attorney for Caldera, Inc. However, Embedix, Inc. was short-lived and ceased to exist later that year, when the [[Embedix]] division was purchased and absorbed by [[Motorola]]'s [[Metrowerks]].<ref name="Metrowerks_2002"/><ref name="Metrowerks_2002_Embedix"/><ref name="Metrowerks_2002_Web"/>

The remaining Digital Research assets fell back to the investor [[Canopy Group]], and parts of the DR-DOS sources were acquired by [[DeviceLogics]] in <!-- Sources differ: October or November -->2002.

Parts of the embedded modules and uClinux software assets (formerly Rt-Control Inc.) were acquired by Arcturus Networks Inc. in 2002.<ref name="uClinux"/>

The router division (formerly Moreton Bay) spun out as SnapGear, and was later acquired by CyberGuard and then [[Secure Computing]], and Secure Computing was acquired by [[McAfee]] and as of 2008 was still producing the SnapGear brand of VPN/routers.

Lineo Japan, a former Japanese acquisition and at one time wholly owned subsidiary, United System Engineers,<ref name="USE"/> Inc. (USE), now trades as Lineo Solutions.