Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Bote that this would also boycott the chance to replace Closed Source in
> Solaris
> by OpenSource. Boycotting this kind of integration means boycotting the
> spirit
> of an OpenSolaris project.
No - at worse, it means blocking the replacement of closed source with
one of the several available open source implementations - it does nothing
to block other existing open source implementations or even a new one not
yet written. star is not the only open source tar that has ever been
written or ever will be. (And as explained by others already, this
doesn't even block a version of tar based on star from being used, as
long as it maintained Sun tar compatibility when installed in /usr/bin/tar.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
