'Linux Users Don't Actually Want Linux'

"The enthusiasm isn't about Linux, it's about access to Intel and the ability to run Unix on what seems to be a cheaper platform," according to Robert Youngjohns, Sun's executive vice president for global sales operations -- Reuters. "But, while the platform is cheaper, Linux brings with it its own costs, including fragmentation of the operating system into multiple distributions, and cost of supporting the systems, Youngjohns said." Comment: Just don't mention the fragmentation of the original (as opposed to cloned) Unix, which Robert undoubtedly remembers from his days flogging AIX on IBM RS/6000 minicomputers in the UK. Sun and IBM were on opposite sides in the Great Unix Wars between Sun/AT&T (Unix SVR4) and IBM/DEC/HP (Open Software Foundation), which split the industry and opened the door to Microsoft's Windows NT.