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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[petrus4]

I will confess that the blogosphere is a largely unknown entity to me...although if the blog's contribution is representative of puerile line noise such as this, it would seem I'm not missing very much.

Schwartz has simply declared himself to be just another corporate lapdog...this is the sort of garbage that gets churned out on a routine basis by ZDNet in particular...Maybe he should work for them, if he isn't already.

As for his moronic and completely oblivious assertion...I've been telling the sheep here on /. for a while now that I don't think Debian "is" Linux, and it goes without saying that I'm not going to think Dead Rat is Linux's exclusive or most important representative either.

Dead Rat exist primarily for the benefit of the corporate world. Yes, they've made some contributions to the more honest group that use Linux, but their primary purpose is to demonstrate to the mindless denizens of the corporate landscape that yes, it IS possible to make a cracker with Linux. So for the purpose of unutterably stupid androids such as Schwartz, I suppose Dead Rat could be looked at as a focal point of Linux.

The thing we know and he doesn't though (or doesn't care about, take your pick) is that Dead Rat are one among many. They most definitely are not all there is...and their contributions notwithstanding, thank God for that.

In terms also of blogging being the next wave of journalism...again, if this is the sort of material that blogs customarily produce, then that is entirely possible. It would at least be consistent with the rest of journalistic history, if nothing else.