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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:19:37AM +0530, D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida wrote:
D.Venkatasubramanian,>BTW, read this thread :
D.Venkatasubramanian,>
D.Venkatasubramanian,>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-07/msg01564.html
D.Venkatasubramanian,>
D.Venkatasubramanian,>This was discussed a lot in the GCC community and most
developers did
D.Venkatasubramanian,>not seem to favor deprecating SCO support.
D.Venkatasubramanian,>
D.Venkatasubramanian,>As of now, it does not seem that GCC is pulling the plug on SCO
D.Venkatasubramanian,>support.
I know what you mean and I did read the thread as well as the
slashdot discussion around it. when I said "gcc is pulling the
plug" it should have been "gcc is thinking about pulling the plug"
but I realized the error only after I had sent the mail.
I support gcc's decision to deprecate SCO support. it would mean
that people who buy SCO will now not have a free compiler which would mean
they would think about not buying SCO but what half-brain would think about
buying SCO anyways? or had bought sco in the last 4 years?
Dropping SCO support forces current SCO users to migrate to another OS,
or SCO to develop gcc both of which are good for the Free software community.
But many people do run SCO. not because they want to but because
they have proprietary solutions built on top of it that work
and they dont want to mess with it. pulling SCO support would
hurt these people more then SCO.
But as FSF as an organisation takes a stand on freedom rather
then software development this step would seem a bit hollow and
make FSF look bad. In the true spirit of free software GCC should
keep developing on SCO as well.
I believe SCO knows that SCO unix has no future and they are using
unixware as it can be used best (to make softballs or at times hardballs
with it and throw at whoever comes around) at this time it being IBM.
On the slashdot discussion however a gcc developer came under fire.
>SCO maintains GCC on their platforms (Score:5, Informative)
>by Bananenrepublik (49759) on Tuesday August 12, @09:49AM (#6674652)
>If you look at GCC's MAINTAINERS file you will see that SCO's
>Kean Johnston is the OS port maintainer for SCO's platforms. If
>you search through gcc-patches, you will see that he still is
>actively contributing, using his @sco.com address. So they seem
>to allow this to happen.
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/12/128223.shtml?tid=117&tid=187&tid=88&tid=99
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