On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So where we talking about these OSes on desktops. When did Ibrahim
>> hadad say this ? early 2000s ? Well that was the case back then not now.
>
> We talked internetworking 'only'. We were never on Desktop!!
>

You can't use an OS with bad inter networking on servers,
can you?

> Ibrahim Haddad talked to me about this in 2006!!
>

4 years is long back, the only exciting thing in solaris
is ZFS and dtrace and only these 2 were keeping it alive.

>> Ask NYSE why did they move to Linux from Solaris.
>
> Thats what exactly Ibrahim Haddad was talking about!
>
>> What else do you need ?
>
> More eyeballs for BSD :)
>
>> Yes we know who Eric Allman is. FOSS has nothing to do with the UNIX
>> culture, it's the hacker culture that is related to UNIX and BSD. Bill Joy
>> is not a big fan of open source and neither SUN was. If they had been a
>> big fan they would have opened solaris way back.
>
> open source is a business model. probably they were comfortable with
> their earlier model.
>

Open source is certainly not a business model. Open source is about pure
passion and love for code. People into management think open source is
a business model because they don't understand open source.

>> When a 35 year old project gets influenced by a 20 year old project, it's a
>> big thing.
>
> influenced because of the institutionalizing of the social machine
> around the code, quoting Eric S Raymonds :)
>

Do you realize your are getting flamed by a 22 year old ?

>>
>>> Hey guys, can we have USENIX India?
>
> can we have it?
>
>
> Mohit Singh
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Aditya Sarawgi
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