Rainer Orth <ro at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> > document again. Uncommitted could probably be OK as well but we at Sun
> > actually have no control over these interfaces.
>
> Sun control is not the point here and never was; this is a common
> misunderstanding. This is all about the actual stability of the
> interfaces, which is all the user cares about, not who controls them. If
> the project has a track record of keeping interfaces stable, non-Sun
> projects can easily be Uncommitted or even Committed.
You are correct, this unfortunately still is missunderstood by Sun people.
Interfaces they cannot control are declared "unstable" although they may
deliver a lot more stability than Sun projects do.
My conclusion is that OpenSolaris is not yet a really open system as Sun likes
to control things that are controlled by the community.
J?rg
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