Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.

Lauri Tischler (ltischler@efore.fi)
Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:06:25 +0300

Alex Buell wrote:
> That worries me because I
> can think of no better backdoor like this for them to delibrately write
> crippled drivers for Linux in order to de-rail the whole process and make
> BillyShit Gates happy.

If I understand the idea of UDI correctly, in this case _everybody_ would
have crippled drivers, not only Linux.
Naturally one could check the system type and turn on/off the CrapFlag
(tm), especially in binary-only drivers.

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