Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265086AbTFUHg1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jun 2003 03:36:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265087AbTFUHg1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jun 2003 03:36:27 -0400 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:15273 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265086AbTFUHgZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jun 2003 03:36:25 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 07:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <063301c32c47$ddc792d0$3f00a8c0@witbe> <1056027789.3ef1b48d3ea2e@support.tuxbox.dk> <03061908145500.25179@tabby> <20030619141443.GR29247@fs.tum.de> <20030619165916.GA14404@work.bitmover.com> <20030620001217.G6248@almesberger.net> <20030620120910.3f2cb001.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030620142436.GB14404@work.bitmover.com> <20030620162719.GA4368@hh.idb.hist.no> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1056181827 6053 212.34.181.4 (21 Jun 2003 07:50:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 07:50:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2003 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2711 Lines: 54 Helge Hafting writes: >So Sun spends more on Solaris than all open source together, and >still can't match linux wich only is a part of open source. >Dreaming up stuff isn't enough - some of the novelty lies in >a working good implemetation, not merely in the original abstract idea. >Ideas tend to lack in practical detail. Give me a well working multipath FC implementation. Go Gigabit Ethernet. Go USB. Go IEEE1394. Go DRM. Go "any new technology that's beyond the level of a printer port". Compare Linux vs. Solaris. Rinse. Repeat. Most of the stuff in the Linux kernel (and Userland) is marked as "Version 0.1. 0.7beta. alpha-release. 0.2.1testing. 1.2-pre". And so on. You won't find many OpenSource developers that call their product "Version 3.1" Because they're afraid to bite the bullet a do a release. With a commercial OS, you get a release version on which you can build. Sure it has bugs. Sure, some of the code _is_ alpha quality. But that's what a vendor is for. >I don't think open source is so parasitic. Commercial software >have a head start, open software is still catching up in many fields. No it does not. It simply has no political or ideological reasons not to talk to other companies, sign NDAs and spend money. If Sun wants a "state of the art" driver for nVidia chips, they call nVidia, draft up an agreement, get access to the nVidia docs and build such a driver. The main problem of the "open-source" movement is that "beggars" attitute. If it costs money, we won't use it. Look how long it took Linux to get a really decent driver for the eepro100 chips, which are commodities parts these days. And only after Intel finally decided that there is no more interesting IP in the docs and released them for free. Check the level of support of _current_ graphics chips in Linux. You get a halfway decent ATI support, "bad, bad, bad closed source" but performance-wise very good nVidia support and Matrox is a bad joke (judging from my experience of trying to get a G550 with DVI running). Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire --- Quote of the week: "Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience." --- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/