[ale] Linux as has-been OS <G>

[Dave]

Yeah, that letter was sent to RedHat and was posted on RedHat's page as a
joke. It was on http://www.slashdot.org last week.  (great site, btw)

-dave

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> From: robbie at tomservo.eng.mindspring.net
> To: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: Re: [ale] Linux as has-been OS <G>
> Date: Monday, December 01, 1997 4:39 PM
> 
> In our previous episode, R I Feigenblatt was heard to say:
> > 
> > I just got an interesting letter from SCO. It reads:
> > 
> > 	"But, now there's something that blows it out
> > 	 of the water! Introducing the NEWEST VERSION
> > 	 of SCO's hot OS...UnixWare 2.1.2...
> 
> "We're cool because we own the trademark."
> 
> > 	"2. Linux has no defined strategy for the future.
> 
> What's SCO's strategy? "We're SCO. We Suck Less Thn Before!"
> 
> > 	"3. Most important, can your company accept that its viability as a
> > 		business depends heavily on a freeware product maintained by a
> > 		small number of people on an essentially volunteer basis?
> 
> Versus a company employing many full-time developers who still haven't
> been able to make SCO anything more than something that UNIX admins tell
> horror stories about..
> 
> > 	"4. Of course there is a challenging aspect to Linux. Just imagine
> > 		all the fun you get when you encounter a bug and debug the kernel
> > 		yourself."
> 
> On the same note, just remember the 'challenge' that some news
administrators had
> when they discovered that some older versions of SCO had inode
limitations
> that assured that they'd run out of free inodes (and couldn't increase
them)
> long before they ran out of disk. 
> 
> Please excuse me, I'm in the mood to flame today.. :-) I'm sure Chris
Farris 
> can fill everyone in on how much SCO has improved over the years.. :-)
> 
> Robbie