Torvalds vs Schwartz GPL Wars

javipas writes "The controversial message published by Linus Torvalds (mirrored) in the Linux Kernel Mailing List was from the beginning to the end an open attack to Sun and its Open Source strategy. Linus criticized Sun's real position on GPL, and claimed that Linux could be dangerous to Sun. Upon his words, "they may be talking a lot more [about Open Source] than they are or ever will be doing." Jonathan Schwartz's blog has been updated today with a post that is a direct response to Linus claims, but in a much more elegant and coherent way. Sun's CEO notes that "Companies compete, communities simply fracture", and tries to explain why using GPL licenses is taking so long."

Comments

Schwartz should reply in a mailing list

[yohanes]

So this could be a new historical Linus debate.

ahh....

[Mockylock]

"I see your shwartz is as big as mine."

Re:ahh....

[Tolkien]

I felt a disturbance in the shwartz, as if millions of nerds clicked past TFA and read the comments for these sorts of jokes.

oh man

[mewsenews]

And to prove the sincerity of the offer, I invite you to my house for dinner. I'll cook, you bring the wine.

most.. awkward.. date.. ever.

Re:oh man

[Pojut]

They better keep a close eyes on the maids...I get the feeling one of them will look suspiciously like Bill Gates.

Better check them for recording devices too.

Re:oh man

[Wylfing]

It gets much worse when he shows up and there are candles lit and Barry White on the stereo.

GPL Wars

[Anonymous Coward]

May the Schwartz be with you.

Curse you

[BlackCobra43]

Excuse me while I go selectively erase the mental image of Bill Gates in a French maid uniform from my memory with the time-tested method of blunt trauma to the head.

Re:Curse you

[c]

> Excuse me while I go selectively erase the mental image of Bill Gates in a French
> maid uniform

Just imagine the grin on Melinda's face as she dresses him that morning:

"Oh, don't worry dear. It's what all the other CEO's are wearing".

c.

Is this going to hurt?

[Anonymous Coward]

Will this FOSSie civil war in any way effect our ability to get new and innovative text editors?

Because as any Lunix aficionado know, you can never, ever have enough text editors. We may not have an OS which can auto detect and auto configure new hardware, but when you have millions of different text editors to choose from, chasing Windows 95's tail lights seems like a pretty good place to be.

Re:Not a bad Linus message

[asninn]

Also of note is Theo's de Raadt message in Sun's blog: "[...] So I think that Linus is right"

Wow. Hell must've frozen over...

Never worth it

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't care about Lunix anymore, their opportunity to win hearts and minds has long passed. They have been whining about Microsoft supposedly keeping them down for over a decade, despite the fact that they can't even do what Windows 95 could do back in the day.

Lunix is not, despite their propagandizing to the contrary, ready for the desktop... and probably never will be. And no matter how you slice it, they will always be at least a decade behind Microsoft.

So sadly, their vast and unprecedented variety of text editors is just not enough to get people to use their OS as anything but a tech toy. It's an ok choice for a server, and it's kind of neat for small devices, but as for the desktop... I'll go with an OS which is actually ready for prime time.