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| Sun gets few props from the open source world. Critics say the
| company open-sourced its Solaris operating system only because Linux
| had already beat it in the market.
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| If that's not enough, Sun is in the process of open-sourcing almost all
| of its software. Not even IBM, long friendly to the open source
| Linux operating system, has gone that far.
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| [...]
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| For all these efforts, Sun gets few props from the open source world.
| Critics say the company open-sourced its Solaris operating system
| only because Linux had already beat it in the market.
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| [...]
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| Badmouthing Linux
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| Even Sun executives own up to miscues. Schwartz and his predecessor
| Scott McNealy used to regularly badmouth Linux and the low-cost servers
| on which it runs in an attempt to defend Sun's more expensive and
| reliable competing products. That gave rivals like IBM and
| Hewlett-Packard grounds for painting Sun as an enemy to open
| source and Linux, a rap that's hard to shake.
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