[ilugd] GCC pulling the plug on SCO support

2003-08-14 Thread Spoonman 
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2003-08-03  Mark Mitchell  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

* README.SCO: New file.

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As all users of GCC will know, SCO has recently made claims concerning
alleged copyright infringement by recent versions of the operating
system kernel called Linux.  SCO has made irresponsible public  statements
about this supposed copyright infringement without releasing any evidence
of the infringement, and has demanded that users of Linux, the kernel most
often used with the GNU system,
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We have been urged to drop support for SCO Unix from this release of
GCC, as a protest against this irresponsible aggression against free
software and GNU/Linux.
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full mail--
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-08/msg00191.html

Anyone still got the balls to ask SCO support on a linux mailing list?
:)

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RE: [ilugd] GCC pulling the plug on SCO support

2003-08-14 Thread D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida 


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Subject: [ilugd] GCC pulling the plug on SCO support

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2003-08-03  Mark Mitchell  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

* README.SCO: New file.

===

As all users of GCC will know, SCO has recently made claims concerning
alleged copyright infringement by recent versions of the operating
system kernel called Linux.  SCO has made irresponsible public 
   statements
about this supposed copyright infringement without releasing 
any evidence
of the infringement, and has demanded that users of Linux, the 
kernel most
often used with the GNU system,
snip
We have been urged to drop support for SCO Unix from this release of
GCC, as a protest against this irresponsible aggression against free
software and GNU/Linux.
snip


Here's the full text :

We have been urged to drop support for SCO Unix from this release of
GCC, as a protest against this irresponsible aggression against free
software and GNU/Linux.  However, the direct effect of this action
would fall on users of GCC rather than on SCO.  For the moment, we
have decided not to take that action.  The Free Software Foundation's
overriding goal is to protect the freedom of the free software
community, including developers and users, but we also want to serve
users.  Protecting the community from an attack sometimes requires
steps that will inconvenience some in the community.  Such a step is
not yet necessary, in our view, but we cannot indefinitely continue to
ignore the aggression against our community taken by a party that has
long profited from the commercial distribution of our programs.  We
urge users of SCO Unix to make clear to SCO their disapproval of the
company's aggression against the free software community.  We will
have a further announcement concerning continuing support of SCO Unix
by GCC before our next release.

BTW, read this thread :

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-07/msg01564.html

This was discussed a lot in the GCC community and most developers did
not seem to favour deprecating SCO support.

As of now, it does not seem that GCC is pulling the plug on SCO
support.


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