[osol-mktg] 10 most important things about OpenSolaris

[Ben Rockwood]

Laura Ramsey wrote:

>
> ( Cross posting to opensolaris marketing alias )
>
> We're growing so fast, and so many people are now joining in--and I 
> was wondering...what are the 5 most important things we'd say about 
> OpenSolaris?
>
> List your favorites! Make it witty and wise.
>
> What's the "cocktail" pitch (meaning, how would you describe what you 
> do in the opensolaris.org community in the time it takes for the 
> bartender to mix your drink?)

Thats a tough one...  witty and wise in 5 things during the time it 
takes to mix a drink?  (Which is hard because I refuse to drink mixed 
drinks... too wimpy.)

Here's a stab:

1) OpenSolaris & Solaris10 is bringing innovation to the UNIX world that 
we should have had 20 years ago.
2) F**k UNIX-like... Run the real thing.
3) If Sun had open sourced SunOS/Solaris in 1990 Linux wouldn't exist.
4) GPL gives you freedom at knife-point... your free so long as you 
force everyone else to be free.  CDDL provides a better way.
5) Open Source != "Linux".  Thanks to standards, most of which Sun was 
involved in, 95% of the open source applications avalible run on 
OpenSolaris... the other 5% are non-portable crap that deserves to die.


Hows that?  The "while my Guinness is pouring" explanation would be "If 
you wanna suck, thats your problem... when you are interested in the 
future, let me know."

benr.
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