Re:Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014 (2014)
by throwawaylinux on Monday March 07, 2022 @07:53PM
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See, even the flamewars were more epic back then.
And yes I'm aware of that comment and it's a personal favorite of mine. Not the message by itself, but in the context the tantrum is the ultimate tacit surrender and humiliation of the big professional corporate clunky slow old proprietary OS to this open source upstart.
Miller's post was pretty strong out of the gate ("Solaris is a pig") but it had a lot of interesting technical content.
"Have you ever kissed a girl?" https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.sun.hardware/c/wCd7fHnz...
by Sun employee Bryan Cantrill (dtrace) :)