Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Dec 2005 19:29 UTC
A new study on the major players in the Unix server market has declared IBM the clear customer favorite and brought to light some serious issues with Sun Microsystems' product line. Most alarmingly for Sun, the company appears to have lost its cachet as the dominant Unix player and done so while alienating customers. Sun finished last in almost every one of the Gabriel Consulting Group survey's categories, spanning technology performance, customer satisfaction and software tools.
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2005-10-08
> eh? It's nearly six months old now.
I'm going to ask you again. Please show me where it is a requirement of open source that the company providing the source make it available to you in a readily installable binary form. It's not. It never has been.
"OpenSolaris is nothing but a PR spin for Sun, to make it look like they're actually doing something that's "open""
False. Completely and totally false. Sun is open sourcing more and more of their software all the time. So stop spreading FUD.
"Since the GPL is the predominant "open source" license (by a LARGE margin I might add)"
You don't know what you are talking about. The predominant open source license is actually the Apache Software Foundation license. And it has spawned a lot of additional open source licenses.
"The GPL has long been the true measure of openness."
By your opinion. And that's all it is. your opinion. And no, it is not the true measure of openness. When it comes to open source licenses, the GPL is by far the most restrictive one there is because of its viral clauses.
"You basically have to be running Solaris to compile OpenSolaris, good one Sun!"
Again, you don't know what you are talking about it. If you did, you would have have heard of something called a cross-compiler. In simple terms, NO you DO NOT have to be running Solaris to compile OpenSolaris. And even if you did, what's the big deal? You can get Solaris for free... Oh... That's right... It's not licensed under your holy GPL, which is the one true open source license.
Again, stop spreading FUD. It makes the entire community look bad.
Edited 2005-12-17 06:50