[ug-bosug] [belenix-discuss] Fwd: Yet another criticism of opensolaris 2008.5

[Sriram Narayanan]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:17 PM, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The author of this post criticizes well (
>> http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18441/1090/).
>>
>> We should have him criticize Belenix so that we get valuable feedback
>> on what to improve !
>>
>
> The article is low on facts and high on (negative) emotions. I wouldn't bother.

I quite agree on this article being low on some (but not all ) of the
facts, and that the author seems hell bent on criticizing Solaris.

However, these sites have high user ratings, these articles are
submitted to digg and such, and these are the links that are quoted
when people what to criticize opensolaris in future.

One way to bring down the credibility of such articles is to highlight
the real facts by way of responses, and to give up only if the author
is still hell bent on criticizing. This happened with one of the
Thougthworks products some weeks ago.

Another thing that we very definitely can do is to publicly invite
such authors to review our work, and to establish publicly viewable
information that we are open to constructive criticism and that it is
the author who is insisting on being a negativist.

To that end, I feel it is useful to establish contact with such authors.

>
> -Shiv
>