see the ban SCO icons at www.pclinxonline.com (sign the petition;) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Mark Veltzer wrote: > Hello all! > > I wanted to see how to the following ideas will fly with the open source > crowd in view of SCO latest outrageous behaviour: > > 0. Make clean ./configure fail on SCO systems by modifying autoconf. > User could still compile but not by default (special flags > to ./configure would need to be supplied). > 1. Calling out to OS developers to put bugs related to SCO platforms at > the end of their bug lists. > 2. Removing SCO platform as target for gcc and forcing sco to maintain > such a back end on their own. > > These are ofcourse very extreme measures but SCO seems to be acting > so outregeously as to disregard the whole community of OS and FS > developers. I think we should let them know that hurting the OS > community is much more severe than milking IBM's money. > > The blatant refusal by SCO to reveal which kernel code is in question > is abismal. This goes to the heart of their intentions which is to > hurt the entire community and thus raise their value as seen in the > eyes of Gates and friends. The damage they are causing can only be > assesed in the billions. I, as an open source developers and as a Linux > consultant, am directly hurt by this latest SCO scam which reduces my > clients wishes to move to Linux. This actually hurts my pocket! I do not > see any moral problem with issuing an open call for all companies to drop > UnixWare and annoucing an ordered plan for removing support for it accross > the entire line of open source project. > > So, how many are for threatening taking such steps and how many are > willing to activly trying to to take such steps ? > > I want to remind everyone that there is nothing illegal in taking such > steps - for instance - there is nothing illegal in forking apache and > maintaining a "SCOless" apache - and if the number of downloads of the > "SCOless" apache will be high enough it may be that the apache group > will remove support for SCO also... There is certainly enough anti SCO > feelings out there to make "SCOless" packages in great demand (I would > even consider making a "SCOless" icon for open source projects to use). > > Cheers, and an early demise to our favourite McBride...:) > Mark > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
