Sun's COO Pretends Linux Belongs To Red Hat

An anonymous reader writes "Ever mindful of minting phrases likely to spread virally through the Net, reports JDJ, Jonathan Schwartz's blogging gifts were used Friday to assert that "it's increasingly evident the OS wars are down to three - Microsoft Windows, Sun's Solaris, and Red Hat's Linux." The article comes up with a new angle on one of the most-talked about members of the tech-exec digerati, saying of Schwartz: "He's the Winston Churchill of technology - he mobilizes the English language at least once a week, and sends it into battle against Sun's rivals." But Churchill would never have tried to pull a fast one by disingenuously describing Linux as "Red Hat's Linux" - the community will upbraid him, for certain. Churchill Schmurchill, Schwartz is a technology mischief-maker not a technology statesmen."

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Have to say "Red Hat"'s if you're a corporate thug

[shoppa]

Schwartz's mindset (much like SCO's, you will note) precludes the possibility that a bunch or loosely connected hackers could put something together that rivals and exceeds his company's sweat and tears.

Unlike SCO, which claims that they're precious source code was stolen, Schwartz instead presumes that Red Hat's software development works exactly like Sun's or Microsoft's OS division. It's just a matter of tiny minds.

This is made obvious not only by this comment but by others he has made in the past (see Groklaw etc.)

In terms of OS Wars..

[darius779]

Solaris isnt even on the radar. Including Sun's OS in that statement just makes me laugh.

RHL is Dead

[mslinux]

Red Hat killed it when they decided to focus on the "Enterprise". I suppose this is why Sun is upset. IMO, they should be glad that RH is so short-sighted. Doing away with RHL will be recorded by history as the most foolish move that Red Hat made during its brief lifetime.

Xandros & Linspire would not exist were it not for the demise of RHL. So, you may say, what do home users have to do with the "Enterprise"? Everything. People like to use what they know. They know Windows from home, so it's natural to use it at work... the same could have been true for RHL.

Re:Nit-pick

[NDPTAL85]

Your pedantic point is well pointless.

Its like trying to point out that hackers aren't bad hackers, that instead its the crackers who are the bad hackers. The media doesn't care, never have never will. Bad computer guys will always be called "hackers".

As for Linux, RMS's feelings aside, it is not GNU/Linux and Linux is not just a kernel. Its an operating system and sometimes even more than that because at times it represents the entire Open Software movement on its own.