Re: Getting HP to support Debian
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:13:24 -0500,
Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote in message
<[🔎] 1067368404.25272.70.camel@king.gregfolkert.net>:
> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 14:09, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > ..IMHO, we should instead buy IBM irons and boycott HP,
> > HP is sponsoring SCO; http://groklaw.net/
> >
> No HP is not "supporting SCO" on this matter. Neither is SUN (as they
> are doing the same)
>
> The reasoning they are using, is that *IF* customers are willing to
> pay for indemnification then who are they not to have them part with
> the money.
>
> For you see, the only reason IBM and SGI haven't done the same is
> mainly due to the fact that they have lawsuits pending against them
> from SCO. But HP is doing because they CAN. They ALSO have the FULL
> UNIX source... They also have LINUX SOURCE... you can only come to one
> conclusion:
>
> SCO's claims are bogus and HP is willing to stick its neck out for
> nearly ZERO risk of indemnification lawsuits. But it can get free
> money by offering it. Best part is, as soon as they put Oracle or
> Sybase or some such... the certification is lost anyway. Only on
> certain configurations of certain machines with certain setups.
>
> So I would get to up in arms about it.
..HP is sponsoring SCO "City to City Tour". I say boycott HP
until they join us against SCO et al. Same for Sun etc.
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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