Wednesday February 02, 2005
Wednesday February 02, 2005 "Cooperation isn't very motivating. It's a lot more fun to compete. It's good to have competing projects; it keeps everybody honest. If you try to unify too much, people get lazy because they don't see anyone nipping at their heels."
It's healthy that there are competing operating
systems and that we push each other to perform and excel. And of
course, the nice side effect of competition is choice for customers, which I
believe to be a very good thing. No business wants the
inflexibility that goes along with a single solution,
especially when that implies higher costs and less innovation.
I respect what Linus said in Paula Rooney's CRN article titled "Torvalds:
Waiting To See Sun's Open Solaris" as well. Linus is
an intelligent, articulate and obviously accomplished person. I
respect him. And
for those Solaris community advocates among you, please don't take his "I hope they die" comment personally.
I don't believe that he wishes that you, or I, or Andy, or Bryan, or
Danese, or
any of us die - well, at least not prematurely. (Linus
certainly didn't give me that impression when we spoke
yesterday.) At the end of the day, I suspect Linus would prefer
that
his creation win the competition and that OpenSolaris
be left in the dust. And that's understandable, and ok. The
thing is, though... I really don't like dust.
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