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ESR Responds to Sun's Claims of Being a Better Bazaar

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cathedral-calls-basilica-cold dept.

UnixSphere writes "Sun has been quoted to have said, 'Sun's Java is developed more in the mode of the bazaar than Linux is,' which has prompted OSI President Eric Raymond to correct Sun's view of what open source really is."

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  1. Bazaar or .... by ralphart · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think he may have meant to say "Bizarre." Having dealt with support, I would agree with that statement.

  2. I'm not sure who to support here. by GeorgeMcBay · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm not sure who to support here....because Sun really sucks these days (and this is coming from someone who was a huge fan back in the olden days of SunOS), but ESR is a huge twat as well...

    Ah well, screw both of them.

  3. Re:Semantic Pissing Contest by k98sven · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, it's semantical in the sense that 'open source' means something specific, and that Sun is trying to use that term to describe something as 'open source' which is not 'open source' by anyone else's definition but Sun's.

    I don't like semantical debates at all. (see my latest journal entry?)

    Hacker vs. cracker is silly. Because that's a case of someone trying to replace common usage of a word with a less-common (but still valid) usage.

    This is not silly. This is Sun trying to subvert the term 'open source' for their own PR purposes.

    What most people are referring to when the mean 'open source' is fundamentally different from what Sun is calling 'open source'.

  4. Sun = 3rd World Bazaar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
    The point here is that Sun is a 3rd world bazaar. The majority of its workforce is former or current H-1Bs from India, Taiwan province, and the rest of China.

    When Sun management was talking about bazaar, the management was being truthful. OSI and Sun are simply talking about two different kinds of bazaars. Sun is referring to its disinclination to hire American employees. OSI is referring to the technical setup of it software.

  5. Re:Java by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    > If I was an American (god forbid)

    God is an American, you insensitive clod!