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Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the alas-poor-yorick dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In an interview with eWeek Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president for software, states: "We do not believe that Linux plays a role on the server. Period. If you want to buy it, we will sell it to you, but we believe that Solaris is a better alternative, that is safer, more robust, higher quality and dramatically less expensive in purchase price.". Also: "IBM is being so hypocritical. If the issue is a non-issue, why don't they indemnify their customers?""

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  1. Linux is free on your private toy system, dumbass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you're an enterprise and go to RedHat or Suse to get your "free" Linux, you'd better bring a decent pile of cash with you.

  2. Re:what do you expect by Eric+Ass+Raymond · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sure you have paid. Not to RH, Debian, Slackware or Mandrake but to your ISP.

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    BOO! TERRO
  3. Re:Purchase price.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    It comes with a crippled C compiler that doesn't compile anything.

    file /usr/ucb/cc

    No shit, really?

    I know all about the Sun "freeware" site, but giving me gcc is a really bad booby prize compared to their own compiler.

    Oh so GCC, one of the best compilers out there isn't good enough? Hell kid, I'm a Sun lover and I still think GCC is the best.

    Does IBM give away their compiler? How about HP, or Microsoft?

    Say what you want, Sun does not like Free software any better than Microsoft.

    Besides their Linux contributions what does IBM give away?