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Sun's COO Pretends Linux Belongs To Red Hat

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-kinda-anyway dept.

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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  1. Could be worse... by WillerZ · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least he doesn't claim it's Sun's Linux.

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  2. SCO's? by Zentac · · Score: 5, Funny

    or for that mather SCO's

  3. Re:Mac OS X? by SCSI-Wan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently Mac OS X is the Switzerland of Operating Systems in this context.

  4. Re:Perhaps he meant something else by WillerZ · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just find it amusing that he thinks Solaris is a threat to anything.

    The only damage solaris is going to do to any other OS is if you snap the CD in half and use the sharp edge to go on a killing spree among the target developers.

    Phil

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    I guess today is a passable day to die.
  5. Re:Stupid by Nate+B. · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or to be even more pedantic, he should have specified the GNU/Linux/XFree|XOrg/Mozilla/OpenOffice/etc. OS.

    Ducks!

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  6. Duchy of Grand Fenwick Linux rises up in revolt by gelfling · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously - if we need to soothe the ruffled feathers of every Eskimo language Linux distro that runs on my espresso machine then Microsoft has already obiterated us.

    The Bigger Picture, people, the Bigger Picture.