[advocacy-discuss] The OpenSolaris "Attitude"

[Joerg Schilling]

Alan Perry <Alan.Perry at Sun.COM> wrote:

> 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. 

I am not sure about his background, but it sems that he does not like to
get recent information about anything.

I had several mail exchanges with him where he made wrong claims about SCSI
implementations. After I asked him to either check the OpenSolaris or the
FreeBSD source to find that he was wrong, he replied that he is not willing
to check this.

Jörg

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