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."

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Re:Linus is right

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Disclaimer: I work at Sun.

I I have worked at a couple places before here , and truly I have never seen engineers who actually care so much about the hardware and software they support. And it shows in how they take care of the customers. I know there are horror stories about Sun equipment and support ( as there are for every vendor ) but these guys really are some of the best and brightest I have come across in the industry.

They routinely put in hours of over time to help get issues resolved , and we are salary not hourly. They train us constantly on every new product in our platform. And we have good labs were we can test and learn.

At an unnamed firm I worked at , they often released the Os and worried later about training the engineers and support staff. Here we actually test it on our boxes during beta , now that is a great learning tool.

The level of engineers here is greatly increased by the access to the hardware and the access to the training facility.

I would place our engineers over Ms at any point and a close tie with IBM. Just this morning I was working with 2 engineers to get some issues resolved on a high profile case , the amount of tam work with in some of these groups is incredible , although it was slowly fading , the pride and team work is coming back and that in itself leads to great engineers.

Now if only the stock would go up a little so we can get more help in here we could do even better.