OT: Question re: SCO Use

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 04:43:59PM -0400, D . Thomas Podnar wrote:
> > 11) OSR6 fees when you want to upgrade to 6.0.1, ofcourse you can't use 
> > 6.0.0 licenses in this one.
> > linux unlimited upgrades
> 
> Well. I happen to sell Intellectual Property for a living, so I'm all
> about asking my customers to spend enough to keep me in business
> and be able to support them and fix their problems RIGHT NOW, instead
> of waiting for somebody to try and undestand and repair the source of
> the original author, who is the only guy/gal who really understood that
> particular piece of code, but got bored with it and moved on to something
> else.

Indeed.  :-)

Open Source project do vary widely in the amount of support it's easy
to get -- and the amount of support you actually *need* (I almost never
need to contact the Apache project people, for example).

> In OpenServer 6, your license fees pay the salary of the guy who is
> PAID to keep your product running.

Poorly.  Has SCO support rebounded?  It was acceptable in the 3.2.4.2
days, went down hill *SHARPLY* after 5.0, and I haven't needed to call
it since.

> > Don't use Suse for your latests hardware use Redhat AS/4 or Fedora Core4
> 
> I'll try that. I'm pretty sure that Red Hat ES 4 wouldn't boot either, and
> that my point about Suse not booting was that it was the latest public
> distribution to become available. Perhaps Core 4 will actually work.

Well, IMO, 9.3 is *too new*; there are 2.6 issues with a lot of things.

But your point is well taken.

OTOH, after SCO's corporate arrogance and stupidity festival of the
last 2 years, I cannot really, in good conscience, recommend them to
any of my clients as an acceptable vendor: it's simply not clear what
their motivations and interests are... but they don't appear to be
aligned with those of many of their (potential/) clients.

Cheers,
-- jra
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