Re: [OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog

[Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>]

Patrick McFarland wrote:
> As everyone knows, Joerg Schilling has a blog, and he often pushes his 
> pro-Solaris agenda, and flames the LKML about how Linux breaks cdrecord 
> (instead of just admitting cdrecord is broken) or how much more awesome 
> Solaris is compared to Linux.
> 
> Well, he just fired yet another salvo at the Linux community: 
> http://schily.blogspot.com/2005/04/value-marketing-and-freedom.html
> 
> I commented on his blog entry, but I am afraid of being censored as my views 
> do not align with his, so I am including the text of my comment here:
> 
> ////
> I suggest people don't read too much into what Schily says. He thinks Solaris 
> is this almighty perfect operating system that crushes all others: The reason 
> Solaris is failing is because more and more people are switching to other 
> operating systems. And yes, Linux just happens to be the one that most are 
> switching to; BSD and QNX are also other choices.
> 
> Most of the people switching to Linux are not doing so because its GPL, not 
> because its associated with other Free Software, and not because the source 
> is available. They are switching simply because it is the best product out 
> there at this time; and as I see it, it will continue to be the best product 
> because Linux software developers are not sitting around arguing about what 
> license is better, or what features other operating systems have or don't 
> have.
> 
> Linux developers code, OpenSolaris developers sit around and flame Linux 
> developers instead of coding. Which operating system would _you_ choose?
> ////
> 
He's maybe a sympathizer of Solaris (remember that the Slab was developed by Sun for Solaris). I don't like Sun, but 
anyway he's right.

Matthias-Christian Ott