Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? (New York Times)

assuming for now that zemlin's utterances are not misrepresented, i still find it perfectly valid to criticize him on the basis of those (admittedly sparse) quotes. a marketing guy should know what he's doing when feeding juicy quotes to the press.

linux has never needed bad-mouthing of competitors, much less fellow open-source operating systems it has taken many good ideas from.
when linux started out, it did not have a strong market position either. such aspects have always been second to technical merit and freedom among the open-source crowd.

despite its long commercial history, *open* solaris is a fledgling project with its own set of promises (and problems). it deserves some leeway while it grows, not bickering from the open-source camp.

i for one am very happy to see that most lwn readers are irritated by such "analyst" bullshit from a foundation that is very much regarded as a representative of the linux community (whether that's true or not).

as to my choice of words, having checked all possible connotations of "jerk" in a few dictionaries, i apologize. what i should have said was: i consider his statements idiotic and unworthy of a representative of a significant linux institution, for the reasons stated above.