Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Linonut on Monday 20 August 2007 21:08 : \____
>
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, [H]omer belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>> Ian Murdock in 2007:
>>>
>>> http://ianmurdock.com/
>>>
>>> Funny, I don't see any mention of Debian's 14th birthday at all.
>>>
>>> It's understandable that he forgot, I suppose. I'd imagine he's too busy
>>> to keep track of trivial things like this little hobby, after all it
>>> must be a hell of a lot of work trying to get Solaris to actually work.
>>
>> I'm sure he's been busy getting briefed by Jörg.
>
> I used to think that OpenSolaris is more than a friend to Linux than a foe.
> Kernel developers made me realise it was not the case. There is probably some
> competition on the way. 10 years ago, Windows and Linux were gnawing on UNIX.
> In years to come it might be 'open source UNIX' (OpenSolaris) and Linux eating
> the lunch of Longhorn (Jim Allchin: "Longhorn is a pig and I don't see a
> solution to this") and UNIX.
>
Is there any problem with that, though? Proper competition, competition
on the basis of merit, not hype (oxford, erik, snit), marketing
maltruths (billwg, quark), or slagging of the competition (dfs,
waterskidoo) is good, wouldn't you say?
I'm all in favour of real competition amongst open-source projects.
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