[advocacy-discuss] The OpenSolaris "Attitude"

[Brandorr]

Linus has stated multiple times that:

a) he doesn't know Solaris
b) he doesn't have time for Solaris
c) that he will only look at features in Solaris, if someone he trusts
brings them to his attention

Also take into consideration that for awhile there it looked like
Linux was in the home stretch for displacing Solaris in the rack and
stack commodity space. It must be somewhat disappointing for Andrew
and Linus.

-Brian

On 9/24/07, Alan Perry <Alan.Perry at sun.com> wrote:
> Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
> >> Indeed! He now calls it a piece of crap because Solaris follows the P=
> >> OSIX=20
> >> standard.....
> >>
> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg36142.html
> >>
> >
> > As in `I do not understand basic system or library calls so if my program
> > breaks things it cannot possibly my fault'.
> >
> > (Of course, you should not be running source code management systems as
> > root and I think that when we tested git it fell over all the time).
> >
> > I don't mind Linus calling Solaris crap; it's about as meaningful as me
> > calling Linux crap: I'm not using Linux and he's not using Solaris.
> >
> Anyone why Linus hates Solaris?
>
> A couple of months ago, he made some bogus claims about Solaris on the
> Linux SPARC mailing list, so I sent him e-mail indicating that he was
> wrong.  We exchanged a couple more e-mails and he told me things about
> Solaris with absolute certainty that may have been true 10 years ago,
> but are not true now.
>
> alan
>
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- Brian Gupta

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