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

[jmerkey <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>]

As Linus once commented to me, just let this stuff roll off your back 
and ignore it. 
Patrick, just ignore this smuck.  If this is his opinion, people will 
evaluate it
as such.  Linux speaks for itself, and it's worldwide use speaks for itself.

Jeff

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:
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>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?
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