Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 07/22/03

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Date: 21 Jul 2003 23:37:10 -0500

    On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 23:32, Brian McGroarty wrote:
    > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:25:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
    > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:03:55PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
    [snip]
    > SCO has made no claims against the 2.2 kernels.
    >
    > If worst comes to worst and SCO finally show some incriminating code
    > in 2.4, stepping back to 2.2 until the relevant bits are purged from
    > 2.4 is all anyone should need to do to cover their assets in countries
    > where this becomes an issue.
    >
    > AC maintains functional backports of all the important bits, so few PC
    > Linux users should be significantly affected by an (IMHO) unlikely
    > judgement in SCO's favor. If you maintain a large number of systems
    > professionally with 2.4, an advance test of 2.2 might be prudent.

    How does the lack of modern features (USB2.0, ieee1394, DVD, etc)
    in 2.2 stack up against FreeBSD-current? 

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