>> > The community cannot survive without open code. Many parts of >> > Opensolaris rely on closed sources. We need an emergency project to >> > make as many parts of Opensolaris open source or replace them with >> > open source. >> >> Agree, and it should be made faster. >> > > +1 > The reality is that most people talk about wanting to make things more "open", but when it comes to doing it I don't see a lot. Emancipation project is a joke. The wide character stuff left that needs implementing would take a non-trivial amount of time. Taking something like NetBSD Citrus [1] and dropping that in is currently our best option, but still not easy. (I know I've looked at how df bsd, fbsd and various other implementation choices)
In defense of the emancipation project.. /they/ really don't have much alternative since the OSR to review the Citrus code would be unfeasible and could never be included in onnv-gate. Thus the tradeoff between how they do it now vs the big extra complexity just doesn't make sense. That's why /we/ have our own external gate to make the merge a lot easier. I'm more than happy to adjust my priorities and deliver a *fully* open/booting distro from the ground up if someone is interested to help or sponsor the work. So stop the bs talk and help out.. ./Christopher --- Community driven OpenSolaris Technology - http://www.osunix.org blog: http://www.codestrom.com [1] http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/citrus/ and also libc/iconv
