Linux vs OpenSolaris…Again: The Q&A
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| To be perfectly honest, I can think of several things I’d rather do than
| deconstruct yet another Linux vs OpenSolaris/Solaris flamewar. Including
| having a few of my fingernails pulled out. But given the volume of inbound
| requests for comment, both public and private, I feel obligated to comment in
| some capacity.
|
| [...]
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| It may well be that Roy is right, and that Sun should move OpenSolaris
| towards a MySQL model of development, a scenario that many find abhorrent but
| that personally I’d be fine with. It’s also possible that with this issue
| behind the community, and some of the diametrically opposed philosophies
| departed, the community will be less prone to internal strife and make better
| progress.
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| Either way, the community will have its say, but so will Sun. And I don’t
| have an issue with that, as long as it makes a decision and sets expectations
| appropriately.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/02/20/linux-vs-opensolarisagain-the-qa/
Such suffers an image problem at the moment (incidents from the past week).
Recent:
Not with a bang, but a whimper
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| Roy Fielding[1] finally quit the OpenSolaris community today, see his
| resignation letter[2]. The kettle finally boiled over and the realization
| come to many (but not all) that Sun is publishing their Solaris code for
| marketing purposes, rather than creating an independent, community-led, open
| source project with the ability to make real decisions.
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http://www.ratliff.net/blog/index.php/2008/02/14/not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper/
Sun Unveils New Strategy Aimed At Web 2.0 Developers
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| CEO Schwartz says that the Solaris, Java, virtualization, MySQL combo is best
| for development.
|
| [...]
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| MySQL brings another key set of developers, the users of the integrated open
| source LAMP stack, he said. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP or
| Perl. The "L" doesn't have to be taken literally, he added. Sun can and will
| substitute Solaris for Linux in the stack.
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206504258&subSection=Enterprise+Applications
Sun Confirms Inflexability & Community Disregard
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| On Monday OGB Chairman Rich Teer posted Sun's answer (crafted by Mr Bill
| Franklin with the assistance of Mr. Simon Phipps) to the OGB's request for
| clarification regarding the highly controversial decision to name Project
| Indiana "OpenSolaris". The issue is highly mixed, on one hand you have Sun
| Microsystems looking for a way to monetize OpenSolaris, on the other hand
| they are redefining the term "OpenSolaris", around which everything is based,
| without a single regard for the community.
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http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=898
Related:
Sun bullied, used threats to gain control of open source project, former owner
says
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| Sun used strong-arm tactics and made threats to the owners of an open-source
| directory project to wrestle away control, according to one of the former
| owners and creators of the project.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/112907-sun-opends.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Linux: ZFS, Licenses and Patents
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| A recent discussion on the lkml examined the possibility of a
| Linux implementation of Sun's ZFS. It was pointed out that the
| file system is released under the GPL-incompatible CDDL, and
| that Sun has filed numerous patents to prevent ZFS from being
| reverse engineered.
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/8066
"Save a Penguin, Unplug a Linux Server" May Win Most-Flamable E-Mail Award
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| I just got an e-mail from Sun which is probably the largest violation
| of L. Ron Hubbard's Survey tech that I've ever seen. It was an e-mail
| with the title of, "Save a Penguin - Unplug a Linux Server Today".
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http://jetteroheller.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/save-a-penguin-unplug-a-linux-server-may-win-most-flamable-e-mail-award/
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