Divide and conquer

Divide and conquer

Posted Sep 16, 2004 20:55 UTC (Thu) by hazelsct (subscriber, #3659)
Parent article: Open Source Solaris?

Check out the last two grafs regarding Microsoft. My guess is that The Beast wants Solaris 10 to be developer-tainting GPL-incompatible, so e.g. WinFS drivers can't get into Linux and other freer OSes.

It's divide and conquer: get Solaris and you'll have Unix with some Windows compatibility but without all the Linux community server and desktop apps; get Linux and you have great community but get frozen out of Microsoft shops.

After all, that's what's happening with OS X: lots of Unix fans are happy paying money for non-free graphics layers on a free Darwin in order to get MS Office, and not participating in or contributing to Linux. If they can neutralize the Solaris camp, they've split us three ways...

Food for thought.

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