> You know, there are people over there who say the > same thing about > us. I don't agree with them either.
I'd say you're right, there probably are; but, people like me care as much for them as they do for me. No problem there. The thing is this: they said Sun is closed and proprietary -- you've given them most contributions of any company; they said Solaris is "Slowlaris" and that "Linux rulez" -- Solaris now runs as fast or faster than Linux; then they said Solaris is closed source and proprietary, and that open sourcing Solaris is a lie -- OpenSolaris exists for more than a year now; they complained and moaned how the tools are not gratis -- Sun has released the whole middleware stack and the compilers for free-as-in-beer. You -- we all -- consistently proved them wrong, point for point -- but what good did it bring? Those people are stuck -- no matter what we as a community and no matter what Sun did, they kept making up one excuse after another. They're still not using Solaris, still prefer GCC to Sun Studio, still complain how Solaris isn't GPL. So let me ask you all this: if Solaris is GPLed, what will the next excuse be? Those guys aren't going to accept Solaris. They're fundamentalists who don't use something based on technical merit, but based on ideological merit. And to me, that's the wrong reason to use an OS. The only way those people might ever be *compelled* to accept Solaris is if Solaris delivers everything Linux has, but in a Solaris way -- a clearly better way -- and markets that, point for point. It's the software availability and the end users and customers that will make or break Solaris -- not a few million Linux geeks stuck in their ideological dogma. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
