Re: SCO Extortion

From: "Gavin M(dot) Roy" <gmr(at)ehpg(dot)net>
To: Harald Fuchs <hf118(at)protecting(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SCO Extortion
Date: 2004-01-21 18:28:23
Message-ID: 400EC4C7.8060004@ehpg.net
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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(dot)T930(at)ganymede(dot)hub(dot)org>,
>"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
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>>On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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 ..
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>>Again, you have to consider that with the code-sharing that happens,
>>drivers and such tend to be very similar, if not identical ...
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>Moreover, what should prevent the SCO scumbags from molesting *BSD
>users if they would succeed in destroying Linux?
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>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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