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Re: Boycott SCO?
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Reinhard Mueller |
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Re: Boycott SCO? |
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23 Jul 2003 08:26:01 +0200 |
Am Die, 2003-07-22 um 23.04 schrieb Michael Elizabeth Chastain:
> The SCO Group has launched a legal and PR attack on Linux in particular
> and free software in general.
>
> I would like the FSF to boycott The SCO Group. Specifically, I would
> like to propose that the FSF drop support for SCO operating systems from
> all GNU products.
I don't think this would be right. It would contradict the basic freedom
number 0: the freedom to use the software for any purpose (and certainly
on any system you want).
Apart from that, a measure like that would punish SCO's user, not SCO.
As a side note, I don't think the FSF explicitly "supports" SCO
operating systems now. The FSF very much concentrates on the GNU
operating system.
The only thing that's there now might be a few #ifdefs to make several
programs compile and run under SCO operating systems, and if we remove
these on purpose to break compatibility with SCO, we
a) aren't much better than M$, who also change code to break
compatibilty with other systems they don't like and
b) will probably simply cause a fork to happen.
> Is gnu.misc.discuss a good forum for discussing this issue?
Probably yes.
Just my 2 (Euro) Cents :-)
Reinhard
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