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The flamewar

The flamewar

Posted Nov 1, 2007 22:09 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: The flamewar by nix
Parent article: The OpenSolaris Developer Preview

Probably he was a Solaris fanboy because he had a fantasy about how it was managed and how
work on the OS was done. 

Since it was closed there was nothing to prove him wrong and it was probably flatering on the
Solaris folks so Sun didn't do anything to prove him wrong.

So he busily went around trying to inflict his fantasies on how a 'real' Unix OS is developed
on the Linux folks. 

Now that a 'real' Unix OS is out there and open for him to hack on he isn't letting his
delusions die and is trying to now inflict his fantasies on the OpenSolaris folks. 

Er.. Something like that.


Still, the idea of releasing 'OpenSolaris Preview' under a closed source license was a
shitasticly bad idea.


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