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>
Thanks - oops.
>Thanks for bringing up the issue. I've said my piece.
>
>- Kurt
>
Yup, I think I got the reaction I expected - I just thought someone should mention it,
even if
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Chris Devers wrote:
> People following this may want to read the thread on the GCC list where
> this debate started:
>
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-07/msg01564.html
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-07/threads.html
> ^-- grep for "SCO systems and 'Target Deprecati
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 t
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:19:40 -0600, Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > This could brew an interesting discussion or just start a flame war,
> > but what happens tomorrrow when SCO *claims* that they have IP
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> 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 inapproprop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> This could brew an interesting discussion or just start a flame war,
> but what happens tomorrrow when SCO *claims* that they have IP
> protected code in Perl and that every Perl distribution is tainted
> and all users must pay license fees to use it?
Then we find some
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:11:37 -0600, Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kurt Starsinic writes:
> > > Should Perl do the same?
> >
> > Absolutely not. Perl supports defunct operating systems, buggy
> > operating systems, commercial
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On Aug 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Will GCC drop support for SCO in future releases?
I don't know. But, as is pointed out in the URL you quote below,
much of the hardship if support w
