[Biodevelopers] Re: Biodevelopers digest, Vol 1 #131 - 2 msgs

[Allen Henry]

Since most of the bioinfo world still only exists in
the academia and research areas, the suit would impact
this community and force researchers (like below), to
go to another -free- platform.

However, in the real world, where $$$ has to be made,
this will only help UNIX vendors. And from what I see,
the business community has little problems with this
since the numbers are out that the total cost of
ownership of Linux exceeds that of other platforms.

Additionally, I sincerely doubt that SCO will ever win
this suit since they only have enough $$$ to keep this
in the courts for 3-4 yrs, and IBM has the $$$ to keep
it in the courts for at least twice as long.

Nothing to worry about. :-)


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> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:21:07 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Jaroslaw Zola <zola at icis.pcz.czest.pl>
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> Subject: Re: [Biodevelopers] SCO/IBM Lawsuit
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> : Even though I have been a strong advocate for
> Linux for 10 years now, I
> : have decided for a pragmatic attitude: if SCO can
> ban Linux, most of the
> : Linux community can easily switch to another free
> operating system e.g.,
> : FreeBSD.
> 
> I am one of the FreeBSD fans, however, there are
> some limitations which
> make that I am using Linux mostly... I am not really
> sure about "easy
> switch".
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> Regards,
> 
> jz
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> --
>
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> Jaroslaw Zola                   Institute of
> Computer & Information Sciences
> tel/fax: +48(0)34 3250589                Technical
> University of Czestochowa
> zola at icis.pcz.czest.pl           Dabrowskiego 73,
> 42-200 Czestochowa, Poland
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:06:40 -0400
> From: "J.W. Bizzaro" <jeff at bioinformatics.org>
> To: bio_bulletin_board at bioinformatics.org,
> 	biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org
> Subject: [Biodevelopers] Re: SCO Lawsuit
> Reply-To: biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org
> 
> There is now a poll on our main page
> (http://bioinformatics.org) about this.
> 
> Cheers.
> Jeff
> 
> Sam Jaffe wrote:
> > The SCO lawsuit has sent a chill through the
> corporate enterprise 
> > computing world, especially for anyone working
> with Linux or AIX. What 
> > about the  bioinformatics community? Are you
> following the lawsuit with 
> > interest, or have you already dismissed it? Has
> your project formed a 
> > committee to deal with the potential implications?
> Have you started 
> > formulating plans for what to do if a judge issues
> an order to stop 
> > using Linux or AIX? I know that such a possibility
> is remote, but one 
> > never knows how the legal system will react to
> such lawsuits. Any 
> > replies would be appreciated. By the way, this is
> for a story I'm 
> > working on dealing with the subject. Thanks.
> > 
> > Sam Jaffe
> > Associate Editor
> > The Scientist Magazine (www.the-scientist.com)
> > 215 386 9601 x.3015
> > sjaffe at the-scientist.com
> > 
> 
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> J.W. Bizzaro                               
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