Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek) [LWN.net]

Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek)

Posted Sep 22, 2003 16:30 UTC (Mon) by bobthebuilder (guest, #15313)
Parent article: Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek)

He does have a good point - if HP and IBM no longer have an OS to rely upon, and Sun has Solaris, and RedHat continues to make Linux proprietary... then who wins in the end? Microsoft?

I run a small shop, but there's only one brand of linux left here - it's RedHat. And RedHat ain't free (in fact, it's pretty expensive), and it's a pain to work with. No, I can't run Debian, because there aren't any apps. And I just looked at what the RedHat execs are making, and I'm wondering...

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1087423/000095016803002121/ddef14a.htm

Mr. Szulik has made $80M off of the open source community. Talk about a sly dog...

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Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek)

Posted Sep 22, 2003 17:24 UTC (Mon) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

I will be interested to see how much he helps out when the going gets tough. Just think of what any one of us could do with even 1/10th of that money. For me, it would be enough to quit my job and write OSS the rest of my life.

So...is he greedy? We'll know soon enough, I guess...

Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek)

Posted Sep 23, 2003 6:20 UTC (Tue) by bobthebuilder (guest, #15313) [Link]

We already know. That whole team is getting filthy rich off OSS - what's not to love. Sell the products that the OSS community is building, pay them nothing, take all the credit and the revenue. I should've thought of that.

We tried switching off RedHat to Debian. All our ISV's told us to pound sand. We are stuck, folks, RedHat's the only distro for which major ISV's are qualifying their apps... and my management just mandated it as the only OS allowed in our datacenter.