“But wait — anyone with a clear mind would question this
purchase. While the advocates of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD
continue to bicker over — er, discuss – the merits of each
particular version of the BSD operating system, WindRiver purchased
the proprietary rendition of the famous BSD Unix. But WindRiver,
which has a reputation for being arrogant and difficult to work
with, has marketed this purchase as a way to jump into the
open-source fray. It’s a lie.”
“It’s also arrogance. So is the decision of the Linux god
himself, Linus Torvalds, to ridicule the Mac OS X operating system.
He’s apparently ingested way too much of the Linux freedom
fighters’ fodder while forgetting that people just want their
things to work.”
“Even more arrogant is open-source movement henchman Bruce
Perens’ decision to ask the biggest vendors — IBM and
Hewlett-Packard — to return some of the intellectual property that
the vendors created by using open-source technologies, including
Linux. This won’t give anyone the warm fuzzies, and it may hurt
Linux in the long run.”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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