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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.
Of course, the output of this compiler is not executable code. It produces lawsuits instead.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
...all programs compiled with the -sco flag will now start with a nag screen urging you to pay $699 to legalize your software?
The only thing better than stripping out the support would be generating code that would execute slightly wrongly when run on an SCO OS. Adjusting small decimal numbers just a bit, corrupting a database here and there... every 3 years.
;-).
Talk about Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
Save your wrists today - switch to Dvorak
Stripping SCO support from GCC will only harm SCO's old customers who don't have anything to do with SCO evil.
Both of them?
No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
"Persons" assumes we are dealing with humans.
It is perfectly normal and reasonable to remove support for obsolete platforms.
KDE 3.2 came out with all the new goodies. Mr Mcbride tried to compile it.
l @uware:$ tar xzjvfaocm kde-3.2.tar.gz
darl@uware:$ wget ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/3.2/kde-3.2.tar.gz
dar
darl@uware:$ cd kde3.2
darl@uware:$./configure --prefix=/opt/kde
checking architecture... i686
checking for compiler... GCC 3.4
checking for Operating system... Unixware
*** Fatal Error ***
GCC 3.4 no longer supports Unixware for legal reasons. To obtain a licence to compile on Unixware please pay $699 for a licence from the GCC foundation.
You could stay with kde 3.1 and gcc 3.3, but you would miss out on all the goodies such as Keramik 2, hyperkaramba, Fast OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 and Gimp with CMYK support
*** End fatal error messsage ***
darl@uware:$ rpm -e gcc-3.4 kde
darl@uware:$ rpm -Uvh twm.rpm gcc-1.0.rpm
"SCO: We're moving the software industry into the future, one subpeona at a time"
"SCO: From open source to open court"
"Orkin does bugs. We do penguins"
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Wait.. I'm confused... is the FSF the three year old kid, or is SCO??
.... I was thinking that BLOWME.SCO is appropriate in the current situation.
-A.M.
Pimpin' all the Karma Hoes!
If you have nothing left to lose, and are considering suicide or something similar, why not do the world a favour: kill Darl McBride, while you're at it. Come on, most of us on Slashdot are pathetic human beings, there has to be someone ready to die. Why not bring an evil fucker with you?
So what you're saying is that we should all go over and poop on Darl McBride's lawn? That would be the ultimate slashdotting. Scary thought.
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
This will surely piss off all three SCO users.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Godwin's Law
I know you were joking, but I want my Karma, so I'm going to reiterate your post in a serious tone.
curruption? Yes, keep it like that. make people think it has already happened.
That is why you shoot the damn dog the first time and get it over with. That should be enough to send the message to the rest of the mutts might get the ideal. If not, you shoot the next one. Sooner or later they will get the message or you will run out of dogs.
Shoot the dog, then leave his head on a pike in the lawn as a warning to the others. Then urinate in a circle around the lawn. Grrrrrrrr! :) Yes, that is the ticket...
This is my enterpretation of the SCO corporate logo
-- Greg
Slashdot, would a spell-checker for posting be too much to ask? It's not rocket science!