On Jan 4, 2008 2:44 PM, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > > > The only vendor that the overwhelming majority of users, developers, > > and customers care about is the definition of the binary ABI as > > published by Sun. > > 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.
Compatibility must be useful to be valuable, compatibility with unfinalised OpenSolaris distributions isn't very useful, while compatibility with Solaris is extremely useful given ISV support. As such, it makes sense for Sun to be the primary definer of compatibility. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
