Boy, do I hate the holidays. Tacky Christmas decorations strewn over lawns, holiday mind-control music piped into shopping malls, and the last minute need to drive the economy with conspicuous consumption. People are irritable, depressed, and frustrated, and they vent by giving you really horrendous gifts — like the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL, http://www.sun.com/cddl/), a wonderful, new, GPL-incompatible license that Sun Microsystems will use to distribute Solaris as open source.
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Boy, do I hate the holidays. Tacky Christmas decorations strewn over lawns, holiday mind-control music piped into shopping malls, and the last minute need to drive the economy with conspicuous consumption. People are irritable, depressed, and frustrated, and they vent by giving you really horrendous gifts — like the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL, http://www.sun.com/cddl/), a wonderful, new, GPL-incompatible license that Sun Microsystems will use to distribute Solaris as open source.
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
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As I type this, Chanukah has just finished and Christmas is just around around the corner. Sheesh! I can’t wait til it’s over.
Boy, do I hate the holidays. Tacky Christmas decorations strewn over lawns, holiday mind-control music piped into shopping malls, and the last minute need to drive the economy with conspicuous consumption. People are irritable, depressed, and frustrated, and they vent by giving you really horrendous gifts — like the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL, http://www.sun.com/cddl/), a wonderful, new, GPL-incompatible license that Sun Microsystems will use to distribute Solaris as open source. Dammit! Don’t we have enough of these stupid licenses anyway? All we need is four or five of them, tops!
Another open source license is like fruitcake: nobody wants it, you have to douse it with a lot of alcohol before ingesting some, and even after doing that, you still feel constipated.
Oy, Sun. So much promise and potential, yet so many tragic flaws, kind of like the really talented athlete that can’t help but say really stupid things or is constantly getting into trouble. Sun: the Mike Tyson of the computer industry. Or perhaps the Ricky Williams.
Don’t get me wrong: I really like Sun’s technology, and the company has a lot of talented, intelligent, and energetic people. I really like Sun’s AMD x86 servers, and if the company had its collective head screwed on correctly, Solaris 10 x86 could challenge Linux for mass adoption. Yes, it’s that good. It…
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