On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:10:46PM +0800, Bryan wrote: > First things first.... The only reason I posted this question (about migrating > to BSD) in PLUG is because our company is using Linux (Debian & Slackware > distros) and with a remote but existing possibility of SCO winning against > IBM, Novel, etc.
The fact that you're even considering this possibility shows that you don't actually think it's remote at all. Try reading www.groklaw.net sometime if you want an idea of just how remote the possibility is that SCO will actually win, and behold the enormity of the FUD that they've managed to get you to swallow. They have nothing, IBM called their bluff, and it's only a matter of time before they get crushed. They've been told by the judge to show their hand, and they've filed something, and we'll all know in the next few weeks whether it amounts to anything. If it does, the infringing code will become public knowledge long before the case is decided, and the code in question removed or rewritten as quickly as can be. If it really worries you, you can always downgrade to a 2.2 kernel. They say that it was somewhere in the 2.4 series that their copyrighted materials began appearing in the Linux kernel, so presumably the 2.2 and earlier kernels are safe. By the way, even the *BSD's wouldn't be safe, were we were living in the parallel universe where SCO might actually have more than a snowball's chance in hell of actually winning. We don't have any idea actually of what was in the AT&T vs. BSDI settlement as those court documents have remained sealed. No, the theories that best explain their behavior to date are that: 1. They're a FUD shill for some larger interests that are being hurt by the ascendance of GNU/Linux. I don't need to name names. 2. They're trying to pump the value of their stock so Darl and Co. will have a golden parachute when the time comes. 3. All of the above. > I would like to find ways to be able to make our system down > time in such an event, as short as possible.... Although I am confident that > Linux developers, contributors,hackers(not cracker),etc. will be able to > quickly rectify the problems that will arise should such an unlikely event > occur (SCO winning it's case against IBM,etc.) but in such a short time SCO/ > SCO&Allies tandem can initiate blitz raids (w/ GATT & IPL &/ e-commerence law > in place) that may put our company in a compromising position ( should we > choose not to bring our systems down while waiting for a fix ) ..... That is > why I wanted to set-up a BSD based standby system. > Well, that depends on who you work for. Are you a Fortune 500 company or some other big, high-profile target with loads of money? In the most unlikely event that SCO would actually win their battle with IBM they'd start going after the deepest pockets first, and the most high-profile deployments of GNU/Linux. A small or medium-scale enterprise in a third-world country like here would inevitably take a while to be reached. Think about it. Microsoft doesn't initiate "blitz raids" on all of the legions of copyright infringers for their products here, and their ownership of Windows and Office is beyond question. If you have any unauthorized copies of Microsoft products in your company, that would put you in a much much more compromising position than any Linux deployments you have. It may take a very long time indeed for them to notice even the large companies based here. The telcos for instance. Some of them have highly significant Linux deployments, yet none of them seem to be even half as perturbed about SCO's ranting as you seem to be. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
