Re: Solaris source
Systemkennung Linux (linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de)
Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:00:46 +0200 (MET DST)
> lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com said:
> > lm
> [snip]
> > The primary
> > motivation is the research community which has been migrating to Linux
> > in droves. The deal is that researchers can easily collaborate using the
> > Linux source base but it is much more difficult with Solaris. This has
> > been a problem for Sun for years but there has never been an alternative.
> > Now that Linux is widely available and PCs are as fast as Suns, what's
> > the advantage of a Sun?
> >
> > If you were Sun, what would you do?
> >
>
> Hire some PhD's.
Won't work. PhD's aren't necessarily motivated and creative people. But
it this two properties in the developers that make the Linux development
so strong. Linux development is very close to what development ideally
should be - survival of the fittest. Fittest in the technical sense, not
marketing.
The other point this won't work is because Linux has an incredibe spread.
Whoever is interested in hacking Linux has a copy of it. Something which
Sun's program Scholar program can't achieve. Not by orders of magnitude.
Ralf