FSF, GCC, and SCO Compiler Support

Ancipital was one of several who noted that a special patch is going into GCC. The file is README.SCO, and it is a short writeup about the SCO situation written by the FSF. It stops short of demanding that GCC developers strip SCO support from the compiler, and says more will be announced before the next compiler release.

The output of this compiler

[AtariAmarok]

Of course, the output of this compiler is not executable code. It produces lawsuits instead.

So now...

[mopslik]

...all programs compiled with the -sco flag will now start with a nag screen urging you to pay $699 to legalize your software?

... better yet

[ultrabot]

The only thing better than stripping out the support would be generating code that would execute slightly wrongly when run on an SCO OS. Adjusting small decimal numbers just a bit, corrupting a database here and there... every 3 years.

Talk about Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt ;-).

Re:SCO support...

[fritter]

Stripping SCO support from GCC will only harm SCO's old customers who don't have anything to do with SCO evil.

Both of them?

Re:Difficult

[ccwaterz]

No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
"Persons" assumes we are dealing with humans.

Re:Difficult

[Anonymous Coward]

It is perfectly normal and reasonable to remove support for obsolete platforms.

Christmas 2003..

[Anonymous Coward]

KDE 3.2 came out with all the new goodies. Mr Mcbride tried to compile it.

darl@uware:$ wget ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/3.2/kde-3.2.tar.gz
darl @uware:$ tar xzjvfaocm kde-3.2.tar.gz
darl@uware:$ cd kde3.2
darl@uware:$./configure --prefix=/opt/kde
checking architecture... i686
checking for compiler... GCC 3.4
checking for Operating system... Unixware

*** Fatal Error ***
GCC 3.4 no longer supports Unixware for legal reasons. To obtain a licence to compile on Unixware please pay $699 for a licence from the GCC foundation.

You could stay with kde 3.1 and gcc 3.3, but you would miss out on all the goodies such as Keramik 2, hyperkaramba, Fast OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 and Gimp with CMYK support

*** End fatal error messsage ***

darl@uware:$ rpm -e gcc-3.4 kde
darl@uware:$ rpm -Uvh twm.rpm gcc-1.0.rpm

Re:... better yet

[blibbleblobble]

"The only thing better than stripping out the support would be generating code that would execute slightly wrongly when run on an SCO OS."

Or when run in a microsoft.com domain

Re:... better yet

[HiQ]

No just make a nagging compiler. Let it put up a nag screen with each statement it compiles, showing the statement and asking the programmer if it's allright to compile this and if it's not violating one or more IP's (Yes/No/Abort). :)

Some suggested SCO slogans

[AtariAmarok]

"SCO: We're moving the software industry into the future, one subpeona at a time"

"SCO: From open source to open court"

"Orkin does bugs. We do penguins"

Re:I have to say this

[Seek_1]

Wait.. I'm confused... is the FSF the three year old kid, or is SCO??

How about a different filename ....

[AlabamaMike]

.... I was thinking that BLOWME.SCO is appropriate in the current situation.
-A.M.

There Has to Be Someone Here Ready for Suicide

[dupper]

If you have nothing left to lose, and are considering suicide or something similar, why not do the world a favour: kill Darl McBride, while you're at it. Come on, most of us on Slashdot are pathetic human beings, there has to be someone ready to die. Why not bring an evil fucker with you?

Re:The output of this compiler

[tds67]

Of course, the output of this compiler is not executable code. It produces lawsuits instead.

Your Honor, I object (code)!!!

Re:... better yet

[adric]

GNU's not done 'till SCO won't run! ;-)

Re:I have to say this

[kinnell]

So what you're saying is that we should all go over and poop on Darl McBride's lawn? That would be the ultimate slashdotting. Scary thought.

Ouch.

[Wakko Warner]

This will surely piss off all three SCO users.

- A.P.

Re:Pull SCO support

[twifkak]

Godwin's Law [astrian.net]

Re:Damn

[16K Ram Pack]

curruption? Yes, keep it like that. make people think it has already happened.

Re:I have to say this

[rifter]

That is why you shoot the damn dog the first time and get it over with. That should be enough to send the message to the rest of the mutts might get the ideal. If not, you shoot the next one. Sooner or later they will get the message or you will run out of dogs.

Shoot the dog, then leave his head on a pike in the lawn as a warning to the others. Then urinate in a circle around the lawn. Grrrrrrrr! :) Yes, that is the ticket...

My take on SCO

[Greg@RageNet]

This is my enterpretation of the SCO corporate logo [rage.net]

-- Greg