From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 15:31:23 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 E708016A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:31:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from thuis.piwebs.com (217-19-20-186.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.20.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BAC043FD7 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:31:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from avleeuwen@piwebs.com) Received: (qmail 49953 invoked by uid 85); 18 Nov 2003 23:31:35 -0000 Received: from avleeuwen@piwebs.com by thuis.piwebs.com by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20rc1 (uvscan: v4.2.40/v4288. Clear:RC:1:. Processed in 1.208149 secs); 18 Nov 2003 23:31:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.0.110) (192.168.0.110) by 0 with SMTP; 18 Nov 2003 23:31:33 -0000 From: Arjan van Leeuwen To: Michal Pasternak Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:31:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200311182219.09828.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> <20031118222445.GA18709@pasternak.w.lub.pl> In-Reply-To: <20031118222445.GA18709@pasternak.w.lub.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_Hvqu/sq8+LZhut/"; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200311190031.19174.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 List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:31:24 -0000 --Boundary-02=_Hvqu/sq8+LZhut/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 18 November 2003 23:24, Michal Pasternak wrote: > 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. The article seems to imply that by attacking the AT&T/BSDi settlement, SCO= =20 would have more power over Linux source code (as some linux source code als= o=20 comes from BSD). That is their angle. Also, they could attack Apple (?). > > 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. Arjan --Boundary-02=_Hvqu/sq8+LZhut/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/uqvH3Ym57eNCXiERApDiAKCQ3TYcCrhAkdb4my6pTtNRHdS2CQCfUspH gJERK/yndkThSe/jhOzSwi4= =E4gk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_Hvqu/sq8+LZhut/--