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by Kenneth Stailey

SCO's whole story is just TOO bizarre... (Score:3, Interesting) by cozziewozzie (344246) on Friday March 05, @08:24AM (#8474219) I mean, who could have thought of a worse, more stupid way to piss off the whole tech sector and drive yourself into bankruptcy. The more I think about it, the more this strange idea develops that SCO (Caldera) is actually doing all this rubbish to help the Linux community. OK, it is way out there, but in some perverted way, it makes sense. First of all, you have a Linux company (Caldera) who, despite their best efforts, has trouble staying afloat. At this time, there is no corporate support for Linux, the big vendors are running away from it, and the "GPL has never been tested in court" is touted as an argument all over the place. Big UNIX vendors only see Linux as a way to get people into their more proprietary solutions. So, Caldera buys out a UNIX vendor and does the most ridiculous thing imaginable: sues everybody, proclaims that Linux is communist and all that bullshit. Fast forward to the current situation: IBM, HP, Novell and other big players are squarely behind Linux and protecting it. Microsoft is exposed as a greedy monopolist who uses underhand tactics (yet again). GPL gets tested in court and it is under such circumstances that guarantee a strong precedent in GPL's favour. The UNIX heritage is cleared once and for all. Linux wins, in a BSD fashion, and is free from corporate FUD. And who pays the bill? Greedy investors. This could turn out the be the best thing for the corporate image of Linux ever. --- Join the Society Against Raping the Word "Definitely". __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com

21 years, 3 months

Just a bit of (Intel BSD) history

by Wesley Parish

Michael Sokolov, I notice you're quite fond of the 4.3BSD family, and regard it as the One True Un*x. If you'll go to http://masalai.free.fr/386BSD.tar.gz, you'll find Bill Jolitz's 386BSD 1.0 - mostly the source code. (I've also got the 386BSD 0.0 source files on my machine - about a decade after I almost got them downloaded but decided not to because Linux was marginally cheaper in terms of disk numbers. I'll have to mount them loopback and copy the files off them.) And perhaps it can be placed with the other 4.3BSD family members in the appropriate minnie.tuhs directory, Warren? -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."

21 years, 4 months

As of this moment ...

by Wesley Parish

I am a bona fide BSD user, running 4.3BSD Quasijarus0c on my copy of the SIMH VAX. (Mind you - just to set the cat amongst the pigeons - running on my Linux box ... :-) Thanks to everybody for all your help. It's been greatly appreciated. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."

21 years, 4 months

Re: [TUHS] Quasijarus.Z problem

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Wesley Parish <wes.parish(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote: > I downloaded the two Quasijarus distros, Not sure which two do you mean, but keep in mind that the current release is 4.3BSD-Quasijarus0c, and that Warren's archive is no longer the main distribution site for 4.3BSD-Quasijarus and is not up to date. The main distribution site for 4.3BSD-Quasijarus is ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG. > I was under the impression that gzip (both standalone and included in tar) > knew how to handle compress files. Apparently not. Use real compress, get it from ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG:/pub/UNIX/components/compress.tar I'm using compress -s mode, which produces the same strong compression ratio as gzip (stronger than original compress), but without the politically unacceptable letter 'g'. MS

21 years, 4 months

Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 9, Issue 7

by Larry McVoy

This is a sort of lame message but I'm having a sort of lame day, dealing with some lame people who created some lame problems and I'm sick of lame. OK, enough with the whining already. The good part is that I got a message from this list. I am on a zillion mailing listings, I've been around since the arpa net had 11 IMPs, and long enough before that that I wacked pathalias. I witnessed first hand the first posting of +-------------------+ \ WARNING: Morons / \ next hundred / \ postings / \ !!!! / \ / \ / \/ back in the days where netnews was how we communicated and virtually everyone on news had a PhD or a Masters or was headed there (those were the days, eh?). I love getting mail from this list, it brightens up my day. After a day of nothing but cleaning up other people's messes, people who work for me and should know better, I was in a foul mood. Really foul. And then some mail from this list showed up and it just changed my whole day. Not because the mail was that uplifting but because it is a connection to my past, back when I used to argue with Guy Harris and thought I was right, back when all I wanted was to work at Sun. I really like this list, it's bright spot, but I wished you people were a little more vocal. Maybe it's just me but I wonder if I'm really the only one who revels in the past a bit... Maybe I need to get out more :) -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com

21 years, 4 months

Quasijarus.Z problem

by Wesley Parish

I downloaded the two Quasijarus distros, and tried " tar zxvf *.tar.Z ", and nothing happened. I was under the impression that gzip (both standalone and included in tar) knew how to handle compress files. Apparently not. My system's Mandrake 9.2, tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25. Is there some incantation I'm not doing? Any ideas? Thanks. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."

21 years, 4 months

Oldish UnixWare 2.x boxed copy - useful to TUHS or someone?

by David Ruggiero

Subject says it. I've got an old (well, 10+ years old) copy of Unixware (pre-old-SCO; I think it's release 2.01 or 2.03) in a boxed set with manuals, CDROMs, patch diskettes, etc. Is this of any use to TUHS or someone else as a donation or is it "too recent"? cheers, /David/

21 years, 4 months

[pups] how to extract Keith_Bostic_v7 files?

by Andriy Tkachuk

Hi guys. $subj ? I've tried to seach the list, but no success. It seems, that http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/pups.cgi don't work Thanks, Andriy Tkachuk

21 years, 4 months

[pups] how to extract Keith_Bostic_v7 files?

by Andriy Tkachuk

Hi guys. $subj ? I've tried to seach the list, but no success. It seems, that http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/pups.cgi don't work Thanks, Andriy Tkachuk

21 years, 4 months

[pups] Just the FAQs, ma'am...

by Kelli Halliburton

Can someone direct me to the FAQ?

21 years, 4 months

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