Re: SCO Extortion - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gavin M. Roy
Subject Re: SCO Extortion
Date
Msg-id 400F5D2F.4020001@ehpg.net
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In response to Re: SCO Extortion  (Adam Ruth <aruth@intercation.com>)
Responses Re: SCO Extortion  (Alex Satrapa <alex@lintelsys.com.au>)
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Feel free to link away :)

Gavin

Adam Ruth wrote:

> I've mentioned your predicament to the Yahoo SCO message board, and
> some have asked to see the letter.  Would you mind if I showed it (I
> won't if you'd prefer I don't) Also, if you prefer, I can mirror it on
> my server and post that link so as to not chew up your bandwidth.
>
> Also, the same request goes for your response.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam Ruth
>
> On Jan 21, 2004, at 11:28 AM, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
>
>> My problem is the threat from SCO is not from the bleachers so to
>> speak, but direct in writing :(
>> http://www.gavinroy.com/~gavinr/sco_threat.gif
>>
>> Gavin
>>
>> Harald Fuchs wrote:
>>
>>> In article <20040121005127.T930@ganymede.hub.org>,
>>> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the feedback thus far.  I should also mention I use
>>>>> freebsd
>>>>> for other stuff, but I am mainly asking in peoples experience,
>>>>> which is
>>>>> the best for PostgreSQL to live on specifically.  In terms of a
>>>>> nice smp
>>>>> high end scsi system.  Sorry for the lack of specifics on that
>>>>> before.
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Again, its pretty much a personal opinion ... we use FreeBSD for
>>>> all our
>>>> PgSQL work, and have several clients that are doing so also, and have
>>>> been most happy with it ..
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Again, you have to consider that with the code-sharing that happens,
>>>> drivers and such tend to be very similar, if not identical ...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Moreover, what should prevent the SCO scumbags from molesting *BSD
>>> users if they would succeed in destroying Linux?
>>>
>>> There might be technical reasons to move from Linux to *BSD, but the
>>> SCO amok run should not be a reason to do so.
>>>
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