Comment Re:Whoa (Score 2, Funny) 194
As we all stem from Africa we then have been without all your wisdom.
Comment Re:Linux is the biggest fish in the "open" space. (Score 1) 205
Two comments.
1. Not only is Linux the biggest fish, it's by far the ugliest too
2. OpenSolaris development wouldn't die if Oracle only layed off the bottom 10%. They'd have to start picking from the positive sigma side...
Comment Re:Sun.... (Score 1) 370
Yupp, exactly the scenario I can see coming.
Comment Re:ORCL down 5.5% as I write this. (Score 1) 906
Well, all the other high-end IT companies are also down around the same (3-4-5%) so the market isn't actually saying anything about this.
Comment Re:Bad marketing (Score 1) 221
Well, I've actually done nothing more than showing them there are alternatives to Linux. The 16 year boy was tired of all problems he faced with Ubuntu and is now a happy hacker with OpenSolaris 2008.11. Time Slider is really nice for kids hacking and then possibility to go back in time is A Good Thing. They both started out with Linux when they were around 12 when they found Windows to main stream (which they started with at around 7).
Comment Re:Bad marketing (Score 1) 221
I think you don't really follow what happens out there. I've two boys, 19 and 16, and they both like to hack. In their community it's OpenSolaris that is the bleeding edge and Linux is just mainstream. You just wait...
Comment Re:Bad marketing (Score 1) 221
But why? Solaris is superior to any other Unix or Linux so killing it should have been the most stupid idea they could have come up with.
Submission + - Sun refuses LGPL code for Openoffice; Novell forks (gnome.org) 1
TRS-80 writes: Kohei Yoshida wrote a long post on the history of Calc Solver, an optimization solver module for the Calc component of OpenOffice.org. After three years of jumping through Sun's hoops on his own time, Sun says it will duplicate the work because Kohei doesn't want to sign over ownership of the code. Adding insult to injury, Sun then invites him join this duplication. Because of Sun's refusal to accept LPGL extensions in the upstream code, Michael Meeks (who recently talked about Sun's OO.o community failings, and ODF and OOXML) has announced ooo-build (previously just for build fixes) is now a formal fork of OpenOffice to be located at http://go-oo.org/. Will Sun admit it's being a control freak or continue with pointless duplication?
