> Any comments from this august assemblage ?. > I suppose David has more reason than most to feel umbrage.
Without getting myself back on the front page of the Register correcting technobloggers, I would still point out that Oracle cannot take away the source they have already released -- they don't own all the rights to it (for once, the CDDL actually does something positive). OpenSolaris on Z is still engaged, but at a much reduced priority while we see what plays out. The Illumos/Nexenta effort appears to be serious enough to merit additional discussion of what to do next -- at least we no longer need the closed source libi18n to build the OpenSolaris kernel, and they seem to be making good progress on the kernel lock manager and crypto bits that were the last remaining closed source bits. I might even release the Power code if they actually get those two pieces done. The new instructions in Power7 are actually very helpful for writing operating systems. As for Oracle, well, meh. I don't have much incentive to contribute anything back to their project(s) or recommend their software, that's for certain. It's really too bad that IBM muffed the Sun purchase, but ... yeah. C'est la vie. Es geht wie es geht. No matter -- I have plenty more good ideas. After all, I haven't messed up IBM's marketing strategy and message for at least 6 months.... 8-) -- db
