Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com> wrote:
> > This was true in the pre-OpenSolaris time.
> >
> > Since we have OpenSolaris, there was the hope that interfaces are no
> > longer defined by Sun as dictator but by the community. It seems that
> > this is not true.
> >
> >
> Bit of a tricky one that, if OpenSolaris and Sun Solaris are to retain
> binary compatibility, which is the cart and which is the horse?
The "horses" are the people who contribute ideas and/or code.
It is fair to honor contributions from "outside" a company/project in a way
that gives rights to decide to the contributors. It is not fair to take
contributions but to decide only in the company/project.
BTW: the oldest idea Sun did take from me (1987) was the idea of having a
disk format utility that is not a stand alone boot but a user space program
that runs while SunOS is running.
J?rg
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