As an early activist in the Linux movement (as a means to "topple the Microsoft tyranny") , I have noticed that the battlefield has shifted—in a not-so-subtle way. The new religion is OpenDocument (format). And it looks that the momentum is going to last a very very long while.
For example, Fox News ran an article by one James Prendergast criticizing the decision of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to adopt OpenDocument, it was immediately picked apart by Slashdot. Yesterday, Fox News posted readers' responses at its front page with a very disapproving concluding remark that “Mr. Prendergast's affiliation with Microsoft should have been stated clearly in the article.” http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172063,00.html Everytime the combo-word OpenDocument is mentioned, so is Sun's decision to open-source StarOffice, as well as an inevitable (& at least implicitly favorable) connect to OpenSolaris. Today's NewsForge even made what I believe, a pretty big deal on OpenSolaris laptops: “OpenSolaris, the effort by Sun Microsystems and others to make the Solaris version of Unix into an open-source operating system, has started branching into the mobile computing domain. That's a notable step given that Solaris is generally designed for much more powerful--and stationary—servers.” Laptops have been outselling desktop PCs, and this is an area where Linux has great difficulties penetrating. It will be really cool to see a bunch of notebooks running Solaris. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
