Re: SCO systems and 'Target Deprecation'

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Stan Shebs wrote:

> Not an encouraging example though; only about a half-dozen people at
> Apple even knew there was a boycott going on, basically me and a few
> of the people I worked with, and the main consequence was that I had
> to maintain my own fork of GCC.

However, the visibility of Free Software in general and Gcc in 
particular is much more wide-spread now - after all that's what the 
lawsuit is about.

In any case, I have no illusion that a boycott would change SCO's 
behavior.  We should still do it, though, to make a stance, and to help 
make the point to other companies that this kind of behavior has 
negative consequences.
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