ZDNet: Sun's Schwartz Living a Linux Nightmare | Linux Today

ZDNet: Sun’s Schwartz Living a Linux Nightmare

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 8, 2004

“Judging by his latest blog entry, Sun COO and president
Jonathan Schwartz has something new to keep him up at night–the
growing perception that Solaris x86 is anti-Linux–anti-GNU/Linux,
to be specific. Using some examples (including a recent News.com
story), Schwartz fingers the press for fueling the alleged
misperception.

“However, Schwartz can share the blame. Even though the content
of an older rant suggests otherwise, it’s easy for someone to get
the wrong idea from the blog’s headline–‘Competing Against a
Social Movement.’ Though he subtly slips it in, Schwartz’s choice
of renderings (the Richard Stallman/Free Software
Foundation-preferred ‘GNU/Linux” vs. just “Linux’) is the lynchpin
to his point: a perception of Solaris x86 as enemy to Red Hat is
OK, but a perception of it as enemy to the Linux community is
not…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

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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