Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote: >> but I don't remember anyone ever saying everything will be Open Source. >> After >> all, if Sun had committed to everything, then we wouldn't have the >> Emanicipation >> project being done only by community members. > > Unfortunately, this kind of emancipation does not really happen. In 2005, Sun > could have replaced e.g. /usr/bin/pax by star already. When will emancipation > happen?
When people make it happen - as I said, Sun isn't working on it much, and the Emanicipation project team has made some progress, but I'm sure they would appreciate more help. Why don't you go over to their project lists and ask them how you can contribute? >> (Please avoid the "OSS" acronym as it's overloaded, and could refer to either >> "Open Source Software" or "Open Sound System.") > > If people write OSS, they mean "Open Source Software" since many years. > Unfortunately some people recently did start a confusion with "Open Sound > System." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_System : OSS was created in 1992 by Hannu Savolainen Doesn't sound that recent to me, especially since the term "Open Source Software" wasn't created until quite a few years later. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
