Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Nov 2004 20:48 UTC
SUN Microsystems We had the pleasure of having a quick chat with Sun's COO, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday. We talked about a variety of things, including Java, Solaris, Red Hat and good ol' Unix.
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lies and more lies
by Anonymous on Wed 24th Nov 2004 21:06 UTC

"He believes that Red Hat locks Enterprise customers in, just like Microsoft does, by moving away from the LSB, by patching and forking code (including by using a very non-standard Linux kernel) and so applications only get certified or only work in the Red Hat codebase and no other Linux distro."

lies lies and even more lies. redhat el has always been lsb compliant customers regardless of redhats patches wouldnt be able to choose debian or gentoo without a fixed lifecycle of stable ABI. Jonathan is fully aware of this and continues to claim redhat is proprietary

Why doesnt he even mention Novell as a competitor?