[olug] SCOx Sues A Customer

[Jeff Hinrichs]

When the fireworks erupted over this we started looking at
alternatives.(Always need a contingency plan)  FreeBSD being at the top of
the list(They fought AT&T some time ago and prevailed).  When RH got too
uppity to take our RHN money -- we said fine.  After looking at a bunch of
distros (really liked Debian) we decided that FreeBSD was the way to go. 
We've been consolidating servers and migrating our linux boxes to FreeBSD.

It's got a learning curve but in this phase of the process it appears to
be well worth it.  We are still in the learning phase of the process by
the way.  I would expect to be in that phase for the next two years
though<g>.

I should mention that this conversion is for our servers.  For desktop,
well I'd move to Deb if I could get out from under M$.

-Jeff

Charles Bird said:
> I know of a company in council-tucky here that is
> switching to suse and getting rid of redhat. It is
> primarly to cover their asses in the event of a lawsuit.
> If I had a business of a large size then I would do the
> same, to give SCO any money would be insane considering
> that they are currently in court trying to prove that they
> do in fact own all copyrights to UNIX.
>   I know that somewhere in the world there is a hardcore
> geek with a rocket launcher thinking about going to SLC.
> I'm not saying that they should but I bet there is someone
> thinking about it.
>   Its gonna be a long battle.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: dutch <dutch at tconl.com>
> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 18:52:34 -0600
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: [olug] SCOx Sues A Customer
>
>>
>> I'm about halfway through the conference call and
> checking olug mailing list -
>> no data.  Anybody have thoughts on the suits filed today
> against Autozone and
>> Daimler Chrylser?
>>
>> A good number of us in this town make our living from
> FOSS.  I'm in the middle
>> of a couple of big projects with clients involving FOSS
> initiatives - and
>> interested in what you guys/gals are saying to company
> ownership regarding
>> moves to this infrastructure, risk, ROI and strategy.
>>
>> background:
>> www.groklaw.net/index.php
>>
>> gracias,
>> Dutch
>>
>>
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