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From: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai)
Subject: [TUHS] My response to SCO vs. Linux
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 08:03:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030611060353.GM81568@nexus.ninth-circle.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0306102101.AA25507@ivan.Harhan.ORG>

-On [20030611 03:39], Michael Sokolov (msokolov at ivan.Harhan.ORG) wrote:
>So if anything good comes out of this lawsuit it's that maybe, just maybe, BSD
>will finally get some attention and use over Linux. The Free Computing
>community doesn't have to suffer any loss whatsoever if SCO wins, we can
>instead just switch from Linux to the much better True UNIX, which is just as
>free but a lot more solid, mature, and True. And stick it to SCO and laugh
>diabolically at how they voluntarily made UNIX free without us having to seize
>it by force in a revolution.

That's what I have been wondering about as well, it feels like the AT&T
versus the Regents of the University of Berkeley all over again.

But I'll stick to Free/Net/OpenBSD on slightly less archaic machines
though. ;)

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And empty words are evil...


  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-11  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-10 21:01 Michael Sokolov
2003-06-11  6:03 ` Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai [this message]
2003-06-12 11:31 zmkm zmkm
2003-06-12 20:21 ` Andy Newman
2003-06-12 23:16 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2003-06-13  4:55 Carl Lowenstein
2003-06-19 11:00 ` Peter Jeremy

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