From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754156AbYATNIt (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:08:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753740AbYATNIk (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:08:40 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:50380 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752089AbYATNIj (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:08:39 -0500 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:06:33 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: David Newall Cc: Andi Kleen , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support Message-ID: <20080120130633.76c16d67@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4792DD22.4070902@davidnewall.com> References: <20080119045918.GA12215@basil.nowhere.org> <4792B191.2060801@davidnewall.com> <20080120031153.GB6275@one.firstfloor.org> <4792D221.1010704@davidnewall.com> <20080120051822.GB19784@one.firstfloor.org> <4792DD22.4070902@davidnewall.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.3; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > It's not necessarily that simple. It might be for KFC and Dominoes, but > for others, SCO is not the complete story. Many legacy systems are > written in COBOL, and must pay a per-seat licence for that on top of the > per-seat licence for UNIX. It is these systems that are most attracted > towards SCO compatibility. And they mostly use microfocus cobol which is available on Linux and uses a vm is a trivial port, or they do a quick port to the fujitsu cobol->java vm translator. There are people in this community who deal day in and day out with migrations. I don't hear a whisper of concern from those I deal with about losing iBCS. Alan