Oh-oh...

Oh-oh...

Posted May 6, 2008 18:11 UTC (Tue) by tomd (guest, #881)
Parent article: A Brief History of Sun by Groklaw's grouch (Groklaw)

I stopped reading Groklaw ages ago - maybe it's improved recetly, but when I last bothered looking the reporting of the SCO case was wincingly hyperbolic and the coverage of anyone who didn't adopt the True GPL Way was pathetic. The criticisms of Sun for daring to release code under their own FOSS license were astounding.

For example (from this article):

[Some positive about Sun snipped.] On the other hand, they still offer OpenSolaris as a competing product [to Linux].

Yes, how dare they offer a competing open source operating system. What a dastardly act. I long for the day when Linux has something functionally equivalent to Solaris Zones. Competition in features is a very good thing.

This is not an article on the history of Sun, but is merely a history of Groklaw's reporting of Sun. Brace yourselves.

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OpenVZ and Linux-VServer come close to zones.  Your opinion?

As you may know, container/cgroup features are making their way into the mainline kernel...
starting with 2.6.24, then 2.6.25 and it continues in 2.6.26.

I think it's a useful history of how Sun was and is regarded by FSF and Groklaw, together with
Sun realising they can "play" the louder Free Software advocates (and their followers) to
their advantage - such as dangling GPL-ing ZFS in return for screwing - I mean sueing -
NetApp.