FSF, GCC, and SCO Compiler Support

Ancipital was one of several who noted that a special patch is going into GCC. The file is README.SCO, and it is a short writeup about the SCO situation written by the FSF. It stops short of demanding that GCC developers strip SCO support from the compiler, and says more will be announced before the next compiler release.

Comments

FSF says

[drsmithy]

"We're taking our ball and going home".

Meanwhile, SCO wonders why they should care that someone is taking a basketball away from a baseball match...

And, in other news, RMS threatens to hold his breath until SCO does what he wants.

Re:... better yet

[ultrabot]

The GCC issue on the other hand is one party, who has not been harmed in any way, pummeling the users of a maligned company instead of the company itself.

It's a good hint for everyone to avoid, or migrate away from SCO. They should realize that by choosing the OS, they are choosing to be left out.

This is foolish as it creates enemies from friends.

SCO users are not friends, they are just clueless. Such enemies are hardly dangerous enemies to have.

Re:... better yet

[EvilTwinSkippy]

You my friend are a bigot, a fool, or lack any training in elementary logic.

Has it entered your mind for a minute that there might be some open-source developers who do work under SCO? It was worth someone's time to develop a port of most software to SCO. Now if you are going to start claiming that its hard to document any cases of SCO users giving back to the community, I would like to point out that 99% of the linux community doesn't give back either.

Plan on exacting vengence from deadbeats? I think not. So shut up about SCO users. They are just like any other users of Free Software. We don't threaten to cut off RedHat users or FreeBSD users, or even Windows users.

My suggestion for a patch

[kinnell]

# gcc hello_world.c
Darl McBride sucks Satan's cock
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