"A surprising breach appeared to open between leading Unix and Linux companies on Monday as Sun Microsystems' chief executive called Red Hat 'a proprietary Linux distribution.' The catcall was sounded in an eWEEK.com interview with Sun Microsystems Inc President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz. Besides challenging Red Hat Inc's contention that it is the premiere Linux company, the remark casts the relationship of the companies into a more adversarial light," reports eWeek.
"Schwartz went on to say that Red Hat's price increases and proprietary extensions have lead to 'CIOs figuring out that open source does not equal open standards. Open standards, which Sun has always supported, are better. Proprietary open source [like RHEL] can come back and bite you.'
"Informed of the comments, Red Hat spokesman Leigh Day offered that 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux is licensed under the GPL, and we're totally open source'. "
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