On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Bryan wrote:
> ..
> > distros) and with a remote but existing possibility of SCO winning
> > against IBM, Novel, etc. I would like to find ways to be able to make
> > our system down
>
> You are NOT out of the woods. SCO is also claiming IP infringement on the
> BSD IP, and no one is in a position to refute their claims because the
> terms of the 1994 settlement between the Regents of UC and Novell are
> sealed.
>
> Personally -- I don't rate SCO's chances as very high. But if you think
> BSD is "safer" than Linux -- not necessarily so. If you want to be REALLY
> safe, get the free Solaris X86 license. It's not open-source, and you have
> to compile most everything yourself, but SCO has stated publicly that they
> have no issues with Sun.
>
Or, maybe it time to take a second look at the GNU Hurd
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
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