[advocacy-discuss] The OpenSolaris "Attitude"

[Martin Bochnig]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Martin Bochnig <mb1x at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>  From my point of view we can stop the branding related discussion. I 
>> still remember those days when nobody really believed, Sun would ever 
>> truly open-source Solaris. And when Linus Torwalds had called Solaris 
>> x86 "a bad joke" in 2004/05.
>>     
>
> Indeed! He now calls it a piece of crap because Solaris follows the POSIX 
> standard.....
>
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg36142.html
>
> or in general
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=de&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=torvalds+solaris+crap
>
> Jörg
>   

I'm shocked, that lovely nice individual ...
Sun CEO to Torvalds: "Let's work together" --->> Torvalds: "Solaris is 
Crap."
Not really the reaction one would expect from an intelligent mind. A 
true inventor, community leader, scientist would not behave like that. 
There are other ways to deal with competition.

On a more positive note: It also indicates that he isn't all that 
relaxed anymore, is he?

Martin