“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”

Post by foo101 » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 10:36 AM UTC

cat199 wrote: post #301

oscargrouch wrote: post #277

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> I used to work at Sun, and the Solaris codebase is the most amazing C code I've ever worked with. I'm probably going to be accused of bias, but the Linux code is really messy compared to Solaris. Its not bias. Im a (mostly) C/C++ dev, and very curious about some open source implementations, and the Solaris C source code is the most beautiful complex C codebase i've know. Linux is what it is now, because of the amaz…

BSD guy here - My heirarchy would be more better bsd's > not as clean bsds > solaris > linux with not as clean and solaris being on roughly the same footing- much like SMF requiring XML, solaris code, while very clean, seems very overengineered and not as elegant to me. that said, i really haven't hacked enough kernel code to deserve to be commenting, so yeah..

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 10:52 AM UTC

rl3 wrote: post #283

pm90 wrote: post #282

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That sounds like the definition of a bribe, which is a crime. I would advise you to not make this information public or at least public under an account that can be traced back to you.

Why should he care? He didn't say he accepted the bribe, merely that it was offered.

Post by lokedhs » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 11:07 AM UTC

cat199 wrote: post #301

oscargrouch wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I used to work at Sun, and the Solaris codebase is the most amazing C code I've ever worked with. I'm probably going to be accused of bias, but the Linux code is really messy compared to Solaris. Its not bias. Im a (mostly) C/C++ dev, and very curious about some open source implementations, and the Solaris C source code is the most beautiful complex C codebase i've know. Linux is what it is now, because of the amaz…

BSD guy here - My heirarchy would be more better bsd's > not as clean bsds > solaris > linux with not as clean and solaris being on roughly the same footing- much like SMF requiring XML, solaris code, while very clean, seems very overengineered and not as elegant to me. that said, i really haven't hacked enough kernel code to deserve to be commenting, so yeah..

Post by toyg » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 12:12 PM UTC

davidgerard wrote: post #326

cat199 wrote: post #294

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Sure, if you ignore the massive effort that was being invested in revamping Solaris to be more FOSS friendly and engage with the community prior to oracle's sun takeover.. I suspect if the takeover hadn't happened, the FOSS systems landscape would look a whole lot different. Like what, I don't know, but definitely different.

> I suspect if the takeover hadn't happened, the FOSS systems landscape would look a whole lot different. Like what, I don't know, but definitely different. It's possible IBM would have been a significantly better steward. Of course, it would have been hard to be a worse one.

Post by nailer » Mon, Sep 04, 2017, 12:27 PM UTC

pm90 wrote: post #282

nailer wrote: post #264

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I've had an enterprise vendor offer to drop money into my personal account to make sales. Not naming them, but the sad thing is they actually did have the best product in their space by a long shot. The ones who sucked were probably even better at bribes.

That sounds like the definition of a bribe, which is a crime. I would advise you to not make this information public or at least public under an account that can be traced back to you.