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From: jlselsewhere@my-deja.com (J. L. Schilling)
Subject: Re: tcp services fail (still)
Date: 22 Feb 2004 07:42:37 -0800
Message-ID: <ff3c0649.0402220742.7e8b8d4@posting.google.com> 
References: <88d56$4034fc2d$42a6716f$15891@msgid.meganewsservers.com> <d75a30plicq6ok56tf1kfa4s70eri4hc7f@4ax.com> <d4ead94.0402200111.383451f8@posting.google.com> <is7d305fpftm1hoppb079nk8ut7bpq3g97@4ax.com> 

FyRE <FyRE@toktik.demon.ku.oc.x> wrote in message news:<is7d305fpftm1hoppb079nk8ut7bpq3g97@4ax.com>...
> On 20 Feb 2004 01:11:47 -0800, jboland@sco.com (John Boland) wrote:
> 
> >FyRE <FyRE@toktik.demon.ku.oc.x> wrote in message news:<d75a30plicq6ok56tf1kfa4s70eri4hc7f@4ax.com>...
> >
> >> Seriously, OpenServer and UW are no longer under development
> >> (despite the frankly criminal fibs of a few of the SCOG resellers
> >> here), 
> 
> [...more of SCOG's lies designed to help maintain the stock price...]
> 
> Let it go John, SCO was dead as a software company long ago. Only the
> incredibly shortsighted/ignorant would actually pay for a dead product
> with little hope of future support. I find it disgusting to see people
> like you brazenly lying in the face of all the evidence. SCO is no
> longer producing software. Their last few press releases about "new
> features" in SCOG's tired abandonware have been nothing but further
> evidence of you plundering GPL projects for code. It's pretty
> pathetic.

Here's an example of one of the press releases you refer to:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040218/flw019_1.html.

Yes, some new features depend upon open source software (not always
under GPL license), but many other new features do not.  In particular,
the addition of kernel threads, large file systems support, and other
new features to the OpenServer "Legend" release have nothing to do
with open source software.  The upgrade of both OSR5 and UW7 to the
latest Java 1.4.2 and Sun HotSpot Java virtual machine has nothing
to do with open source software.  And so on.

The statements that OpenServer and UnixWare are still under development
that have been made here are not lies, they are incontrovertible facts.
And these statements have not been made by SCO resellers; rather, they
have been made by SCO engineers working on the actual projects in question.

As to "little hope of future support", hey, that's a question that every
buyer in this industry always has to ask.  Will Sun give up on Solaris
someday?  Maybe.  Has IBM given up on AIX?  Or will some exec shuffle lead 
to their abandoning Linux and going back to commercial OSes.  Who knows?  
Will Red Hat give up on "Red Hat Linux" someday?  Oops, already happened!

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