From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 22:11:29 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 5181C37B401 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 22:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C64F343FA3 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 22:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-2ivfnu9.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.223.201] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19OVzD-0000L9-00; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 22:11:28 -0700 Message-ID: <3EE173BD.44E70B3E@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 22:10:21 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030606110949.02eab658@pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a48ac94b45c98fb392040064700644ccf8350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO Lawsuit 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: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 05:11:29 -0000 John wrote: > Any concerns to BSD / FreeBSD about SCO's suit against IBM / Linux? No. > Any benefits? Accidental benefits, such as people choosing to use FreeBSD in environments (especially embedded systems), rather than using Linux. Nothing the FreeBSD community is going out of its way to capitolize on. > Just curious. I have never been a fan of SCO as it is and > the article suggests the company may be benefiting from > Microsoft's offer to pay license fees to SCO for UNIX code. Only if you call $20M and their first profitable quarter in 7 years a benefit... > End run by Microsoft? Most likely not. See also: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200306/dadvocate.html -- Terry