Saint Stallman
Posted on 10/10/2006 4:56:51 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
Linux or open source seems to thrive wherever Left governments rule. And as Kerala schools log Microsoft out and boot open source systems, Linux world is buzzing with excitement over possibilities in the communist-ruled states. Though West Bengal and Tripura have to go whole hog to adopt a free software model, ideological closeness is more than evident. Kerala, most insiders’ feel, is turning out to be Richard Stallman's happiest hunting ground. His personal vibes with Velikakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan, even from VS's pre-chief minister era, are in play. It’s a picture watching the duo cozying together in a similar attire — Stallman in a crumbled white T-shirt and VS in homely sleeveless white banian. Secretly, people do wonder what Class VII drop-out Marxist patriarch chitchats with whiz-kid of the Red Hat business-model. However, those who attended a Stallman seminar on FOSS, could clearly see that Linux and Left are on the same wavelength.
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Yes, I recommend everyone read the comments from the flaming dude of death, complete with children's drawings which describe killing themselves.
I remember having to beg some companies in Silicon Valley to look at the first Linux distros. Not because of the cost of linux, but because it was a cool idea. We wanted them to port to Linux like they had with SCO. One company laughed at us until they received a machine from us running Linux. Then their attitude changed. The same thing happened with other companies like DPT who made caching controllers.
BTW, Linux isn't exactly cheap anymore. Red Hat's Enterprise products cost a few bucks. But it's good stuff. Heck, I've never had a Linux server kernel panic because of the OS. Years ago we had one Slackware based server that had an uptime of nearly two years and only needed rebooting because we needed to move it.
As far as SCO? I was sad to see them "die" and even sadder to see them morph in to a David Boise litigation company. SCO was at the mountain top and fell off. Bummer.
SGI and Cray got hurt by cheap, powerful commodity hardware, not by Linux. The Santa Cruz Operation sold the UNIX business to Caldera in 2001 and went onto other things.
That was a funny thread - since it was the wrong Ubuntu ;)
I notice your chart is from 2000. Caldera (now The SCO Group) didn't buy the UNIX business until 2001, and in the next year they hired a new CEO who changed their focus from maintaining and improving UNIX to being a lawsuit mill. With SCO's mismanagement and lack of focus, I'm not surprised that UnixWare/OpenServer lost marketshare.
How can a drawing kill itself?
Apparently you forgot that SCO's main business was providing Unix on commodity hardware, yet they got wiped out too. Nothing is as cheap as free, so none of our Unix vendors could hold off the Linux charge, and no Linux company has made a fortune yet either even though several of our Unix businesses went down the drain.
Actually I've long recommended Sun Solaris or to a lesser extent Apple OSX if you don't like or want Windows.
The fact that the fellow who posted this probably used a largely Chinese-made computer makes him a Commie, too.
Yeah, and the U.S. probably sold them the wheat!
Fixed it for you.
In keeping with your anti-free-stuff ideology, you will of course insist on paying me for the service. FReepmail for details of where to send the $100.
Which SCO are you talking about? Besides, neither were hardware companies like Cray and SGI. People still moved to cheap clusters in droves despite Seymour's "1024 chickens" comment.
Saint Stallman
Nothing personal Ivan! :-)
But Solaris has an open source license that gives our technology to them dang furners. OS X too, to an extent.
OK, I'm late, but here's the ping.
OpenSolaris is beta software. They don't get the real versions like you would obviously prefer.
Irk. There's a ping I didn't want...
But, most of the time, thanks! ;-)
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