SCO systems and 'Target Deprecation'

[Steven Bosscher]

Op di 22-07-2003, om 23:12 schreef Shaun Jackman:
> If you intend to boycott a target, make sure you're hurting the intended
> target of the boycott and not friendly users.

Well, I suppose the same was true when GNU boycotted Apple: In the end
you always hurt the user.  So be it, it makes perfect sense to me.  If
SCO users have a problem, then they should migrate to a supported
platform or complain with SCO.

SCO publicly denounces free software and open source software, and in
fact by talking about Linux as covering the whole operating system
(GNU/Linux, whatever), they also hurt the GNU project and GCC.  So why
would a GNU project like GCC support them?  Why would the major
contributors to GCC (like RedHat, SuSE) work for a company that
threatens to shut them down?

Besides, SCO would probably provide GCC anyway because the ports
apparently are in good shape and just recently even got a new
maintainer.  They can produce their own GCC (now if only that trade mark
was in place...)

I am surprised it took this long to get a discussion like this one going
:-)

Gr.
Steven