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A must read for people at Sun working on Solaris. Particularly: "Open source does work, but it is most definitely not a panacea. If there's a cautionary tale h
by albertcardona 19y ago
A must read for people at Sun working on Solaris. Particularly:
"Open source does work, but it is most definitely not a panacea. If there's a cautionary tale here, it is that you can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of ``open source,'' and have everything magically work out. Software is hard. The issues aren't that simple."
Although Solaris does work. Their problems are others, and yet, the situation is not at all that different from the browser wars.
- apathy 19y agoSolaris is a great OS with a lot of great stuff crammed into it. Unfortunately, it no longer has the momentum. All the junior administrators and developers got their start with Linux nowadays. There are all sorts of shoddy bits within Linux, but at the end of the day, why try to jump from a moving train if you don't have to? RIP Solaris... hopefully all of the wonderful parts will end up in Linux anyways.
- Tichy 19y agoMozilla also did work, that guy just gave up too soon. Although I am not sure if it is worth any money to Netscape.