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Will Open Source Solaris Kill Linux?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the will-diet-coke-kill-guinness dept.

Scott_Blayney writes "This guy contends that now that Sun is releasing Solaris 10 under an open source license, Linux will begin to wane in popularity. To quote, "Linux will probably not grow much beyond its current market share of about 10 % leaving Red Hat and especially Novell with a big problem." "

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  1. Re:The Desktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes because desktop users run Unreal Tournmanet and Tribes Vengeance and FarCry on a P2 with 64 mb ram. Wise up, that argument is lame and not even valid on the desktop. we run AMD 64bits with 1gb ram going 2, i have that on my laptop alone. Wise up.

  2. careful - troll by poptones · · Score: 1, Troll

    I said pretty much the same thing a few days ago and was instantly modded to troll. Not once, but three times making the same point.

    Sun doesn't have a good record on this, and (no matter how many times you quote RMS) "opening" the source doesn't make it truly open.

    Uh oh, now I've done it again. let's see how long it takes to get modded down this time...

  3. fanboys by poptones · · Score: 0, Troll

    And all those folks who said "slashdot doesn't have a defined community mentality..."

    Sure can't tell it from here. Seems apparent Apple isn't the only evil corporation with a bunch of brainwshed zealots carefully guarding the door.

    "Momma always said..."