"Sun wants"

Posted Oct 15, 2008 12:47 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: "Sun wants" by tialaramex
Parent article: Linux Summit will preview new advanced file system (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)

There is no such assumption, nor an argument based on it.

I guess I misunderstood drag then, where he wrote:

if Sun wants to make it legal to have ZFS on Linux then it's up to them to.... That is how you know they are serious or not.

As for corporate single-mindedness, few non-trivial corporations are capable of it. That said they most definitely are capable of making single-minded, executive decisions - and Suns' mind in that respect wrt open-sourcing Solaris is very clear. That decision was made based on some weighting of the corporation's collective wisdom. Various weighty Sun people, from executives to notable engineers have given their view, in various places. Their opinions are not Suns' per se, but they are most definately a significant subset..

To go further would be to philosophise way too much about corporate structures, so I'll stop. ;)

As for BitKeeper - When did LMcVoy ever open-source BitKeeper? What data of Linux has Sun locked in a proprietary format?? This seems a very flawed analogy (and please, let's try to avoid arguing too much by analogy).

I'm not asking for LWN readers to start loving Sun (though, a lot of Sun engineering work does go to benefit Unix generally, including Linux). However arguments based around FUD, logical fallacies and false-equivalences seem quite below the normal, high standards of commentators here.

Would grudging respect be too much to ask for? :) (you may assume I'm inclined to make similar arguments at work, if the need arises, not that my opinion carries much of a weighting ;) ).