Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic 16738

Well, given your general tone and the content of most of your responses to posts on this newsgroup, my opinion is that you are a soul-less drudge, Kier, but that may only be a surface impression. I understand that it is difficult for someone to accept a premise that they have no direct experience dealing with and that goes against their prejudices. You want to see a linux success and are reluctant to accept any theory that opposes or even seems to oppose an easy success. You like others demand "proof", but you are not going to get anything to satisfy you because you refuse to accept it if it doesn't support your prejudice.

Logically you would have to agree that choice implies a differentiation between the object being chosen and other objects from which you choose it. The strength of that differentiation determines the strength of motivation for making the choice. The chosen object is expected to be better to the degree necessary to justify the effort to choose it. If-when Sun simply says "Me, too!" to the elements that previously differentiated Solaris from linux, all of the customers who had previously chosen Sun and were still using Sun systems immediately lose their motivation for change to linux.