Re: SCO Extortion

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>you should invite him in to talk, and let him know that you are
>investigating drop'ng Linux altogether and are curious as to what
>SCO/UnixServer could offer ... basically, tell him you are looking at
>options, and take up his time on 'the sales pitch' :)
>
>
But before you do this, rent a temporary office in the worst part of
town, and put up a bunch
of Voodoo relics. When he comes in, make your first question:

Are you enlightened?

;)

>On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
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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
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>>Gavin
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>>Harald Fuchs wrote:
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>>>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?
>>>
>>>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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