It is not only "uncool" morally. By having put Sun's private Mesa DRM port under the CDDL, and at the same time by not having pushed the code upstream into the official DRM git repo, Sun is basically harming nobody else than itself. Because that way the official DRM gate keepers now do not only not need to care about keeping the Solaris DDI/DKI port in sync, but they do not even have a chance, except they intend to put all of their code under the CDDL, which is - admit it - slightly unlikely. Consequently Solaris users have to wait indefinitely for DRM to be updated once in 3 years, and even then Sun has to PAY THE BILL.
Given aspects like this (and there are numerous more examples) it should not surprise that Sun came into liquidity problems. If something, then it is only how late this happened. p.s. I'm currently upgrading the DRM radeon drivers from June 2006 to current git. Of course it can never go upstream (except maybe into OS/Net), because it is under CDDL. %martin _______________________________________________ gnusol-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-users
