Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.

Nathan Hand (nathanh@chirp.com.au)
Fri, 18 Sep 1998 22:41:55 +1000 (EST)


On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > encouragement of open systems development. SCO, with Intel and Project UDI,
> > will support the open source community by working to ensure that UDI works
> > on the Linux operating system.
>
> "We'd like to fill your truely free OS with binary drivers and ruin things"
> is at least one take on the potential _effect_ of such things regardless of
> good intentions that may exist.

The other obvious reason that SCO wants UDI to succeed is that Linux
has tonnes of drivers and SCO does not, and SCO wants to invent some
plausible way of leeching off the Linux drivers.

Of course, I am just being argumentative, because I actually support
UDI, because it will let me install Solaris on more hardware, and it
will help UNIX in general (even if not specifically Linux).

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