[Lula-biz] torvalds - "sco is on crack"

[Christopher Smith]

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 23:15, Brian Redfern wrote:
> But the beauty of
> making apps in say php/mysql is that lamp apps run very well under *bsd,

Actually, very little software runs on Linux but not BSD. Anything that
you'd write with php/mysql would almost certainly be portable to BSD
even if you used an alternative platform.

> so if you have business guys breathing down your neck over sco, you can
> just move your app over to openbsd, which sco can't touch because UC
> Berkeley successfully defended *bsd in court in '93.

I hate to burst your bubble here, but the only reason BSD users can rest
easy for now is that they are a small enough user base that they are
effectively off SCO's radar. While the '93 code was found to be clean, a
lot of code has been written since (heck, I think less than 1% of the
current Linux kernel code existed back in '93), and any of that code
could potentially be subject to SCO's claims.

-- 
Christopher Smith <x at xman.org>
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