A total success, actually.

I always hated them, and I applaud Schwartz’ ability to bring Sun where I wanted – into sunset (a black hole would be better, but hey).

How is this FUD?

The lunacy:

“I think history will show that Jonathan Schwartz was the public face of an important era, open source’s equivalent of the dot-boom. The Internet had its moment in the financial sun and has gone on to bigger, better things. Now so has open source.”

You f*ck up a whole corporation, but if it’s for FLOSS, the freetards think that it is A-OK.

Also, somehow the opening of sores by Sun was a GoodThing™, well, for Sun, it’s workers, shareholders, partners or users it wasn’t.

How exactly doesn’t this count as FUD? Would they have to claim an atomic bomb detonation in the name of FLOSS to be a “good thing” before we recognise their idiotisms as FUD?

How is it FUD?

It’s fifty-fifty. But interesting from an historical point of view.

The basics of FUD are that you propose FOSS as a win/loss game, with the emphasis on win. This one does it both ways, but is at least honest when it comes to the loss.

No, they claim it was a good thing in general.

It wasn’t.

And it destroyed Sun (I like that; but claiming it’s a good thing per se is a lie)

“How is this FUD?”

It’s mostly not. Just like 'Virtualized evil’, it mostly not about FUD – just stuff that we have kind of grown tired of hearing and decided to make fun of.

I usually keep this kind of stuff in LHB or occasionally OMGCC for the sake of consistency, but, hey, everyone needs a good laugh every now and again.

It’s not something we haven’t seen or heard before. It’s just one of those nonsensical elements that makes up the undercurrents of the industry.

And it usually leads to the same old dead ends that no one want to get stuck in.

FUD on the FUD Tracker? It’s more possible than you think!

If Linux is so dead why do you all need constantly repeat how dead it is? Isn’t that beating a dead horse?

Enough with the lame FUD.

“If Linux is so dead why do you all need constantly repeat how dead it is? Isn’t that beating a dead horse?”

Even at this day and age, the chance of getting hold of accurate Linux market share statistics in the server market is almost next to impossible. Everything we can clearly see thus far is simply what goes on in the public-facing segment of the slice. Of course, if you ask someone who does mostly web-related stuff, the answer is always that Linux is most likely choice for a server (and some drooling-on about how Apache is the de facto standard of the industry and so forth, even though you can get PHP, RoR, Tomcat or even Django to work fine with IIS, or that there is a Windows version of Apache for all that matters). But, as far as I am aware, everything goes with the back-end side of the picture. The Gartner Group statistics cited at the MySQL official site even shows you how SQL Sever was only second to the most popular Oracle Database series in then-current deployment in 2008. And, as we all know, there was a reason (or two) for Oracle to buy out Sun in the first place:

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363

And if we are talking about supporting infrastructures for workstations, I don’t really think there are much of any other choice out there than Windows Server.

Linux? What’s that?

“If Linux is so dead why do you all need constantly repeat how dead it is? Isn’t that beating a dead horse?”

YearOfTheLinuxDeath™.

No wait, I have a better one.

YearOfTheWindowsServer™.

I’m surprised ZDNet even asked.

Schwartz was an abject failure at Sun.

Exhibit A – Sun no longer exist as a company.