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Sun-isms Debunked

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the linux-not-just-red-hat dept.

Newman writes "We're all aware of the hole-ridden arguments that Sun executives Scott McNealy and Jonathan Schwartz use to attack Linux. This guy at NewsForge really grilled them at the Solaris launch party last Monday, and actually got some straight answers out of them. At the end of the article, both execs have some specific words for Slashdot readers."

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  1. Re:What day of the week is it? by Phragmen-Lindelof · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I don't see them contributing to improve linux performance on Itaniums, for example.
    Itaniums (and Itanium-2s) are effectively dead. VLIW was a really dumb idea; I know it has its proponents but I think they are wrong. The market/world has largely agreed that Itanic is dying. To bring up the lack of IBM support for a dying chip greatly weakens your argument.

    Perhaps more important to Linux than any particular code contributions from IBM is their support in the IP/patent wars to come. I think Sun is on the way down and developers are generally not going to support Sun until it adopts the GPL and starts porting important parts of Solaris to Linux. I realize that you will disagree. The only important test is the test of time and I am fairly sure I have made the correct prediction. Watch this spot and see.