A Sun engineer on Linux [LWN.net]

A Sun engineer on Linux

Posted Sep 24, 2004 4:50 UTC (Fri) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)
In reply to: A Sun engineer on Linux by cajal
Parent article: A Sun engineer on Linux

The guys said:
But I think the "oh look, they got money from Microsoft, now they're evil" and the "SPARC sucks, Sun is dying" type comments do constitute bashing,

Are you being deliberately obtuse? you severely distorted what was said, and one can only wonder what your motivation is. Contrast your rant to the actual comment, a simple observation:

Sun takes a wad of cash from microsoft, and lo and behold, they turn up the volume on their anti-linux FUD.

I'm no stranger to sun, my first real unix experience was on sunos back in the early 90s, and I have been a sun advocate on the job for years. But that doesn't give them a pass for all the ridiculous anti-linux FUD they are throwing around now.

I was just talking to a sun engineer the other day about linux and solaris in the data center, and he started right in with the party line, laying it on thick about how linux is cheap and ok for the low end, but crashes all the time unlike the rock solid solaris (har har). The fact is, we run linux and solaris boxes, and both OSes normally have uptimes in the hundreds of days - I see absolutely no difference. The trash talk sounds like they are reading from a script. blech, I won't waste any more time or energy defending sun, whatever happens, happens.

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A Sun engineer on Linux

Posted Sep 24, 2004 5:06 UTC (Fri) by cajal (guest, #4167) [Link]

*Sigh*

First, my comment wasn't a rant. But I guess that distinction is lost here.

Secondly, what does this have to do with "anti-Linux FUD" from Sun? This article is about someone's personal opinion, not an official statement from Sun. It was in some guy's blog. Seriously.

No, I was not trying to be obtuse. I was paraphrasing. Comments like the two you quoted, as well as:

Just a window into the unbelievable arrogance of Sun (or at least some at Sun). If they don't wise up soon, they will be gone.

and

Oh I see now how Sun is going to trash Linux.

are pretty much just mindless Sun-bashing, most likely by people who didn't bother reading the blog entry. neoprene's comment is also an example of this, although slightly less so -- it reeks with open-source, Linux arrogance, insuinating that Solaris' codebase is of no use. I'm just tired of the GPL elitism on what is supposed to be a technical news site.

A Sun engineer on Linux

Posted Sep 24, 2004 5:48 UTC (Fri) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link]

Okay, I'm not really sensitive to trolling, and I hate to depict people as trolls, but this leaves me no other conclusion: you are a troll.

Pity.

A Sun engineer on Linux

Posted Sep 24, 2004 12:46 UTC (Fri) by cajal (guest, #4167) [Link]

Thanks for proving my point - that on LWN (just like on Slashdot or OSNews) anyone who doesn't
buy the party line that "Linux rules and Solaris sucks" is branded as a troll.

A Sun engineer on Linux

Posted Sep 24, 2004 21:47 UTC (Fri) by mdekkers (guest, #85) [Link]

dude, Sun got money from Microsoft, now they're evil! Oh, and SPARC sucks, Sun is dying.... Just so you know....

;-)

A Sun engineer on Linux

Posted Sep 25, 2004 16:14 UTC (Sat) by Tao (guest, #24985) [Link]

Cajal,

You should be proud of being called a troll by the real troll (the worse kind) :)

Tao