Monday September 27, 2004 Matt Ingenthron's Stream of Consciousness
Monday September 27, 2004 The community, open source and Sun: An interesting bifurcation
Take a look at Eric Schrock's entry on Open Solaris.
Then note This article amongst many others.
I wonder why it is when it comes to open source and Unix, Solaris is seen as a threat by some in the community (which as Jonathan noted, is mostly because of this company), while Java is seen as something needed. It's all very odd-- unless you consider that people have motivations other than what they're stating...
Could it be that some people are just so emotionally invested in Linux that they can't even consider an alternative? Could it be that certain companies aren't really fighting for what they say they are, but instead just trying to tilt the playing field their direction?
In either case, either the argument from the Linux camp or the OS Java camp doesn't hold up, since both can't be true to what they believe and make their claims.
On a tangent, why is it pure evil, in some people's opinions, for Sun to target Red Hat, when Red Hat has built their business for the last few years targeting Sun. I agree with Jonathan; let's start calling a distro a distro.
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