From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 6 17:38:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619D916A4CE for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:38:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5B243D1F for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:38:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from localhost.invalid (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i271cAfH027016 for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:38:10 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:38:24 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <87d67pwiiz.fsf@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <87d67pwiiz.fsf@strauser.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200403061738.24301.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: FreeBsd and SCO X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 01:38:25 -0000 On Saturday 06 March 2004 05:30 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2004-03-06T23:06:32Z, "Raymond Wiegand" =20 writes: > > [...] will they be going after BSD user next or is BSD not at all > > based on their kernal or what every they claim is theirs property. > > Who can tell. They may decide that Solaris, Mac OS X, or Windows is > also based on their "intellectual property" and start threatening > those users next. > > In other words, do *not* base your technology plans on anything SCO > says or does. They should be gone soon. =46rom past experience, I always thought that the useful features in Unix=20 came from BSD. If they break the agreement and have to remove BSDisms,=20 I would hate to have to use SCO's version :). Kent =2D-=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html