Re: CVS commit: src

On 08/09/17 23:06, Swift Griggs wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Brian Buhrow wrote:
>> SCO was pretty much pure SVR3, so noting that COMPAT_IBCS2 implements 
>> SVR3 functionality is pretty much correct.  Is anyone still using it?
>
> I used it back-in-the day. I'm probably running some of the oldest 
> Unix variants and versions you'll run across. Also, where I work we 
> support legacy Unix platforms and we don't have any more SCO clients.
>
> In my view "it's dead Jim". If we want to emulate a platform for 
> Oracle, I'd think the method dejour today would be Linux emulation.
>
> Nowadays, I find that Unixware is a lot more interesting (free VxVM 
> anyone?) than SCO ever was. As you say, it was pretty much straight 
> SysV without many cool bells or whistles.
>
> I also find SCO super-annoying now because it's so disagreeable about 
> it's licenses. It's tough to be more annoying than Tru64 about 
> licenses, but SCO manages. I know IT shouldn't be personal, but after 
> we all watched their public demise then Zombie SCO suing every FOSS 
> company they could left ashes in my mouth, personally.
>
> I'm not anyone important in TNF, but I am a longtime user and user of 
> other platforms (SCO included) and my vote is to kill it and reduce 
> the kernel code size. :-)


I think the real question is, is someone still using old iBCS closed 
source software and relying on it.


regards,
chris