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Re: GCC unsupporting SCO - possibly off topic, but food for thought for p5p?

Nathan Torkington
Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:43:19 -0700

Kurt Starsinic writes:
> > Should Perl do the same?
> 
>     Absolutely not.  Perl supports defunct operating systems, buggy
> operating systems, commercial operating systems, and poorly marketed
> operating systems.  It would be inappropropriate to drop SCO just
> because it happens to be all of the above.

Hear, hear.  Perl exists to *help* people trapped on crappy systems.
If we can find it in our conscience to support Microsoft Monopoly^W
Windows, then we can support SCO's software.

Nat