Re: A dubious claim to fame ...

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 11:35, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > --On Wednesday, February 18, 2004 21:14:33 -0500 Bruce Momjian
> > <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
> >
> > > Josh Berkus wrote:
> > >> Folks,
> > >>
> > >> Looks like SCO is now bundling us with OpenWare:
> > >> http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK5.story&STORY=
> > >> /www/ story/02-18-2004/0002112123&EDATE=WED+Feb+18+2004,+01:46+PM
> > >>
> > >> Guess all that debugging with 7.4 was good for something.
> > >
> > > For SCO, that's spelled OpenWarez.  :-)
> > hehe.
> >
> > I did tell you that this was coming.  UP4 for UnixWare has PG 7.3.4 (Yeah,
> > yeah, I know, timing).
> >
> > They've been asking me pointed questions.
> >
> > I consider it a good thing.
> >
> > (Don't start on the Legal crap, ok?  I don't agree with their legal
> > stuff, but that's not the engineers fault, and that's who I've
> > been working with).
>
> What's sad is that by the time the prospectors (Darl and company) get done
> with their pump and dump strategy, and IBM launches their counter-suit,
> the guys who made all the money will be long gone, while the company goes
> under from debts encurred in court, and the decent, hardworking guys who
> write code will be out of a job.
>
> Sad.
>

I'd like to nip any future discussion of SCO's legal business in the bud
(since I don't see it's relevance to postgresql advocacy), so if you
want to continue on with this please let's do it in private mail.

That said Scott, SCO could simply gpl/bsd it's source code, folkd the
company, and then let the workers of the company support individual
support companies around the different sco product lines.

Robert Treat
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