[advocacy-discuss] The OpenSolaris "Attitude"

[Jim Grisanzio]

Martin Bochnig wrote:
> 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?


Very well said, Martin. And Casper, too. And, Joerg, I do also agree 
with you that this is an element pointing to our success. The bit about 
Andrew Morton recently wishing that we had killed OpenSolaris was quite 
lovely, too. All in good fun, I suppose ... :)

Jim
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