New subject: My response to SCO vs. Linux

12 Jun 2003

Michael

I dont agree with you on this , your complain about linux is unfair , on 
the contrary to many unixers especially the new generation of hackers and 
new unix users even those users fed up with Microsoft gimmicks , linux was 
miracle touch that helped to re energize the otherwise stale unix market , 
simply look at the market today which operating system has grown beyond any 
expectations ? . Another thing , in the days of corporate greed and bullying 
a-la-microsoft way, linux played a significant role to cement the open 
source movement.

Good old dear BSD , where is it ?? still fighting a niche turf , why it 
didnt burst in the open ? , its troubles doesnt have anything to do with 
linux its been there way before linux surfaced. I will not go into this 
flame war which is better BSD or Linux because both are dear to me and each 
has its own strong points and weaknesses .

Finally , this whole nonsense from SCO wouldn't be there if SCO had any good 
products to offer or enjoying good revenue , so this law suite shows how 
desperate SCO is sinking in the red and using this law suite to float itself 
again .

Love it or hate it linux is here to stay J .

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preparing for eventual flame war ,

automatic sprinkler = check
fire extinguishers = check
fire fighting water hose  = check
fire proof suite and helmet = check

all systems go .

zmkm

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 From: msokolov(a)ivan.Harhan.ORG (Michael Sokolov)
To: tuhs(a)tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] My response to SCO vs. Linux
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 03 14:01:08 PDT

Here is my response to SCO vs. Linux. The thing is, some of the things they 
are
saying I agree with most emphatically, except that what those things really
support is not SCO but our TUHS cause. Their main line, at least as I 
interpret
it, is that UNIX is the real OS, UNIX is better than Linux, and Linux is 
just a
naughty child that is becoming more and more of a nuisance to the adults. I
agree wholeheartedly! I and many other UNIX bigots have been more vocal 
about
this than SCO.

BUT... UNIX is not what SCO means by this term, UNIX is V7 -> 4BSD! That is 
the
real UNIX, USG is just a bad commercialized branch that no one ever really
liked anyway! So to all those Fortune 1000 (or whatever that was) companies
warned by SCO to stop running Linux, they should throw out those cheap 
micros,
put all their old large VAXen back online, and run True UNIX, 4.3 BSD UNIX! 
And
that *is* real UNIX, it comes directly from V7 and openly and proudly 
admits to
this fact! Isn't an OS that openly and proudly admits to come directly from
Holy UNIX better than a cheap UNIX copycat that needs to be sued in court 
to
determine what the hell it really is?

But SCO probably won't be too happy about it as they just gave away the 
True
UNIX (V7) to the World for free, and it's non-retractable.

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.

MS (donning the flameproof spacesuit)
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