Re: SCO Extortion

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' :)

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(dot)T930(at)ganymede(dot)hub(dot)org>,
> >"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)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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