Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Sun's work is a case of reinventing the wheel and saying, "but we're
> a big company that will unify *everything* and get it just right."
>
> Errr... isn't that what SuSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu and many others have
> tried to do?
Not exactly, it was United Linux, which comprised SuSE, TurboLinux, SCO,
and Conectiva (two of which are now members of the Monkey Club, one's
gone bankrupt, and the other was bought by Mandrakesoft).
Obviously GNU/Linux resists "unification". It wants to be Free.
Sun should take note.
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K.
http://slated.org
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