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Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now



On Tuesday 22 July 2003 18:42, cr wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 July 2003 17:37, Sharninder Singh-662 wrote:
> > > Do you suspect there could be a long enough delay between releasing
> > > the alleged infractions and producing a clean kernel that fully
> > > changing OSes could make sense, however?
> >
> > like u said .. if worst comes to worse. either ppl will develop patches
> > and features for the latest hardware or some ppl might just shift OSs.
> > FreeBSD gives most of the freedom of Linux though i'm not an expert on
> > licenses and can't comment on the difference between the BSD and GPL, but
> > i know that FreeBSD is already being used by BIG companies and linux is
> > not exactly replacing it just existing beside it.
> > Worse comes to worse .. hmmm .. makes me wonder ... i should pull out my
> > FreeBSD disks again and try the f***** installation again.
> >
> > sharninder
>
> Cripes, Mickey$oft never managed to make me pay them for using Windoze, how
> the heck are those turkeys at SCO ever gonna make me pay them for using
> somebody else's operating system...?
>
> From what I've read, this is just SCO grandstanding.   They're probably
> just a puppet anyway, guess who's hand is up their butt?    ;)
>
> cr


Damn!   Meant to kill that.  Sorry.

I do realise that many of you are professionals running business systems and 
can't just ignore licensing demands as a private owner can.    

(My opinion of SCO's tactics remains the same though).

cr



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