Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 19 Sep 1998 18:03:56 -0300

In message <ABFW21siyK@khim.mccme.ru>, "Khimenko Victor" writes:
+-----
| BK> Again, Sun, SCO, etc. expect us to write UDI drivers for them. If the
| BK> hardware manufacturers pull the above, they prevent us from doing so - at
| BK> which point they get Sun, SCO, etc. coming down hard on them. We could do
| BK> worse than having the commercial Unixes backing us against recalcitrant
| BK> hardware vendors.
|
| Of course Sun, SCO, etc. does not want ruin Linux. Now. In the future many
| things could happens. Since UDI clearly make Linux more vulnerable to such
+--->8

True. Which is why we must be careful if we do this. But it's possible to
go wrong by being *too* paranoid as well as by being not paranoid enough.

The point is: *if* we decide to become involved with UDI, it must be with
the understanding that we, too, have needs and objectives and that our
involvement is conditional on those needs and objectives being met by the
other participants.

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electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university






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