From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 14:23:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98BB16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from pr93.lublin.sdi.tpnet.pl (pr93.lublin.sdi.tpnet.pl [217.97.36.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF5EB43F3F for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:23:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl) Received: (qmail 18945 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Nov 2003 22:24:46 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:24:46 +0100 From: Michal Pasternak To: Arjan van Leeuwen Message-ID: <20031118222445.GA18709@pasternak.w.lub.pl> References: <200311182219.09828.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200311182219.09828.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO goes after BSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Michal Pasternak List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:23:51 -0000 Arjan van Leeuwen [Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:19:07PM +0100]: > What to think of this? Depends. Linux is (over)hyped these days. Everyone is talking about Linux, big corporations want to use and develop it (Sun, IBM). SCO also surfs on the Linux wave to merely punch up it's stock value. BSD still seems to be less recognized by technical laymen (eg. marketing people). So, who would be attacked by SCO in case they decide to run against BSD systems? Which one of big-bucks-worldwide-famous corporations would it be? No hype, no media, no big corporation to attack - no profit for them. If profit is all they want, they will not attack BSD systems. Why should they? But. What if they want something else - eg. what if they are only a tool, financed by some other corporation, which has to spread FUD and eventually make problems for whole opensource software? It would make sense only if the target is GNU: both Linux and X11-desktop GNU-licensed software, which is already a potential threat to some other, closed-source, commercial-desktop-producing company. It would be quite nonsense to try to destroy software project like BSD - you can easily incorporate all the code into your own software (the license allows that!) So, in my opinion, in both cases BSDs will be left untouched. -- Michal Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl