Re: SCO Extortion - Mailing list pgsql-general

From scott.marlowe
Subject Re: SCO Extortion
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0401211337070.21457-100000@css120.ihs.com
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In response to Re: SCO Extortion  ("Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net>)
Responses Re: SCO Extortion  (Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>)
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They have no case on this.  The abi files were written by Linus Torvalds
himself, not SCO.

tell them to show you the EXACT lines in the abi that are theirs.  If they
can't produce it, tell them to bugger off.  If they do take you to court,
a first year clerk could tear them apart with no preparation whatsoever.

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, 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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