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+As all users of GCC will know, SCO has recently made claims concerning
+alleged copyright infringement by recent versions of the operating
+system kernel called Linux.  SCO has made irresponsible public
+statements about this supposed copyright infringement without
+releasing any evidence of the infringement, and has demanded that
+users of Linux, the kernel most often used with the GNU system, pay
+for a license.  This license is incompatible with the GPL, and in the
+opinion of the Free Software Foundation such a demand unquestionably
+violates the GNU General Public License under which the kernel is
+distributed.
+
+We have been urged to drop support for SCO Unix from this release of
+GCC, as a protest against this irresponsible aggression against free
+software and GNU/Linux.  However, the direct effect of this action
+would fall on users of GCC rather than on SCO.  For the moment, we
+have decided not to take that action.  The Free Software Foundation's
+overriding goal is to protect the freedom of the free software
+community, including developers and users, but we also want to serve
+users.  Protecting the community from an attack sometimes requires
+steps that will inconvenience some in the community.  Such a step is
+not yet necessary, in our view, but we cannot indefinitely continue to
+ignore the aggression against our community taken by a party that has
+long profited from the commercial distribution of our programs.  We
+urge users of SCO Unix to make clear to SCO their disapproval of the
+company's aggression against the free software community.  We will
+have a further announcement concerning continuing support of SCO Unix
+by GCC before our next release.