Hello all!
I wanted to see how to the following ideas will fly with the open source
crowd in view of SCO latest outrageous behaviour:
0. Make clean ./configure fail on SCO systems by modifying autoconf.
User could still compile but not by default (special flags
to ./configure would need to be supplied).
1. Calling out to OS developers to put bugs related to SCO platforms at
the end of their bug lists.
2. Removing SCO platform as target for gcc and forcing sco to maintain
such a back end on their own.
These are ofcourse very extreme measures but SCO seems to be acting
so outregeously as to disregard the whole community of OS and FS
developers. I think we should let them know that hurting the OS
community is much more severe than milking IBM's money.
The blatant refusal by SCO to reveal which kernel code is in question
is abismal. This goes to the heart of their intentions which is to
hurt the entire community and thus raise their value as seen in the
eyes of Gates and friends. The damage they are causing can only be
assesed in the billions. I, as an open source developers and as a Linux
consultant, am directly hurt by this latest SCO scam which reduces my
clients wishes to move to Linux. This actually hurts my pocket! I do not
see any moral problem with issuing an open call for all companies to drop
UnixWare and annoucing an ordered plan for removing support for it accross
the entire line of open source project.
So, how many are for threatening taking such steps and how many are
willing to activly trying to to take such steps ?
I want to remind everyone that there is nothing illegal in taking such
steps - for instance - there is nothing illegal in forking apache and
maintaining a "SCOless" apache - and if the number of downloads of the
"SCOless" apache will be high enough it may be that the apache group
will remove support for SCO also... There is certainly enough anti SCO
feelings out there to make "SCOless" packages in great demand (I would
even consider making a "SCOless" icon for open source projects to use).
Cheers, and an early demise to our favourite McBride...:)
Mark
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