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 > ------------------ > > Today's Imagination is Tomorrow's Innovation > Today's Innovation is Tomorrow's Common Sense > Today's Common Sense is Tomorrow's Nonsense > _______________________________________________ > bsd-india mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india > -- Cheers, Aditya Sarawgi _______________________________________________ bsd-india mailing list [email protected] http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india
