Re: Linux Advocates: Only bad thing is the license!

From: Hamilcar Barca (hamilcar_at_tld.always.invalid)
Date: 12/24/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:23:30 -0700

In article <szMyd.16233$j%1.3765@fe10.lga> (Thu, 23 Dec 2004 23:00:33
-0500), Paul Gress wrote:

> You guys seem to forget Sun Is a business.

You guys seem to forget that Sun's desire for profit does not excuse its
management's hypocrisy and deception.
 
> Part of improvement is marketing.

If this is true, then Microsoft is the most improved business on earth.
Therefore, it is not true.

> This is why Sun says their competing with Red Hat. Linux is not a
> company, and no quality system in place. You can't compete against that.

Saying that simply because Linux is not a company -- ignoring the vague
but transparently false claim it has no "quality system in place" -- is
simply an attempt to disguise the fact it's Linux and not Red Hat that
endangers Sun, et al. If Sun so desired, they could attempt to compete
against Linux by producing a better product; instead, Mr. Schwartz plies
us with numerous falsehoods in the name of marketing.

> They are not going to bed with Microsoft

Sun's announcements that, if it so desired, it would use proprietary
code and protocols, licensed from Microsoft, in its Java [sic] Desktop
System shows that not only is Sun going to bed with Microsoft, they are
expecting Microsoft's baby shortly.

> they are executing their expanding marketing position

They are trying to camouflage a shrinking market position using an
expanding marketing position.

> by taking care of obstacles in it's way.

A marriage to Microsoft will soon prove to be quite detrimental to Sun, as
it has to Microsoft's previous "partners".

> During the closing of the law suit, they decided it would be better to
> be cooperating competitors.

It was Sun's case and they are (or were) entitled to settle it in the
manner which they felt suited them best. However, nothing "open" has ever
come from cooperating with Microsoft and this settlement benefits no one
outside Sun's management: not "open standards" and not "open source".
Further, the road to success is littered with the corpses of companies who
felt they could be "cooperating competitors" with The Evil Empire. 

-- 
"McBride said he sometimes carries a gun...and travels with armed
 guards.  The gun is licensed [and] security officials [sic] have
 told him that convicted felons are behind the death threats."
-- Bloomberg News.  8 March 2004.

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