That story on the Register is terrible. Talk about burying the lead.
It does say "Updated" but the related stories don't have any others.
The way they phrased it, it's obscure until you get deep into the story why she was getting attacked and exactly how much she deserved it. If anything, she should have been sued for slander if she made any of those comments about it being "illegal" to her students or otherwise publicly.
I found her pleas for mercy highly entertaining. Reminds me of the guy that taunted Maddox: "Maddox, I am sincerely apologetic... Please please take it down. If you any shred of decency please. This is all wrong. Please take it off."
Once Solaris can talk to half a dozen USB mass storage devices that I have which every OS can talk to (Linux, Windows, the finicky BSD) except Solaris, I might care about how fast it is at doing so.
Solaris is dead, get over it. Sun killed it, as they kill all their products, by sitting on laurels, insulting users and competitors, ignoring suggestions, and rambling on about theoretical abstractions while blithely ignoring weird limitations and leakiness littered through their product.
Oh, and you're talking about OpenSolaris. That's an entirely different OS, which will be used even less than Solaris's declining market share. The only reason people stick with Solaris is stability. Stability of the kernel and of APIs. OpenSolaris is all sorts of backward incompatible and if you look at some of the bug reports on sun.com you'll see that Sun just doesn't care when they break things any more.
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That story on the Register is terrible. Talk about burying the lead.
It does say "Updated" but the related stories don't have any others.
The way they phrased it, it's obscure until you get deep into the story why she was getting attacked and exactly how much she deserved it. If anything, she should have been sued for slander if she made any of those comments about it being "illegal" to her students or otherwise publicly.
I found her pleas for mercy highly entertaining. Reminds me of the guy that taunted Maddox: "Maddox, I am sincerely apologetic... Please please take it down. If you any shred of decency please. This is all wrong. Please take it off."
Once Solaris can talk to half a dozen USB mass storage devices that I have which every OS can talk to (Linux, Windows, the finicky BSD) except Solaris, I might care about how fast it is at doing so.
Solaris is dead, get over it. Sun killed it, as they kill all their products, by sitting on laurels, insulting users and competitors, ignoring suggestions, and rambling on about theoretical abstractions while blithely ignoring weird limitations and leakiness littered through their product.
Oh, and you're talking about OpenSolaris. That's an entirely different OS, which will be used even less than Solaris's declining market share. The only reason people stick with Solaris is stability. Stability of the kernel and of APIs. OpenSolaris is all sorts of backward incompatible and if you look at some of the bug reports on sun.com you'll see that Sun just doesn't care when they break things any more.